677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. 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. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

Look here, I often feel the same in more than one respect--not just in financial things, but in art itself, and in life in general. But do you think it's anything exceptional? Don't you think every man with a little spirit and energy has those moment

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.