677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

To know life, one must love many things.

A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.