677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

In a sense I’m glad that I’ve never learned how to paint.

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.

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn’t easy to paint oneself either.

Do not think too deeply about these things – gradually they will become clearer to you.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man’s soul.

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.

That is how I look at it; to continue, to continue, that is what is necessary.

There are idlers and idlers, who form a contrast.