677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.

You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.