677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.