677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.