677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

What is done in love is done well.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you