I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Vincent Van Gogh quotes
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Conscience is a man's compass.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
I wish they would only take me as I am.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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