677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like – but truer than the literal truth.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy – that is what is hard to bear...

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart.

I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one’s youth.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

So don’t study and swot too much, for that makes one sterile. Enjoy yourself too much rather than too little, and don’t take art or love too seriously- there is very little one can do about it.

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.