677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

I have had no “guidance or teaching” from others to speak of, but taught myself; no wonder my technique, considered superficially, differs from that of others. But that’s no reason for my work to remain unsaleable. I feel pretty sure that the large “Sorrow,” “The Old Woman of the Geest,” the “Old Man,” and others, will find a purchaser someday.

One must seize the reality of one’s fate and that’s that.

It seems to me it’s a painter’s duty to try to put an idea into his work.

You can live to be old or young, but you’ll always have moments when you lose your head.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.