677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

But on the road that I’m on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don’t study, if I don’t keep on trying, then I’m lost, then woe betide me. That’s how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that’s what’s needed.

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer’s fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

I consciously choose the dog’s path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

Study, analyse the social structure – that’s always far more effective than moralising.

Everything on earth changes – we have no abiding city here – it is the experience of everybody. That it is God’s will that we should part with what is dearest on earth – we ourselves change in many respects, we are not what we once were, we shall not remain what we are now.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again.

I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.