677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.

... life is too short to do the whole.

I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.