Top 400 Vincent Van Gogh Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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2. “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”

— Vincent van Gogh

3. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh

4. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

— Vincent van Gogh

5. “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

— Vincent van Gogh

6. “Art is to console those who are broken by life.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Vincent van Gogh

8. “What is done in love is done well.”

— Vincent van Gogh

9. “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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10. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

— Vincent van Gogh

11. “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

— Vincent van Gogh

12. “I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”

— Vincent van Gogh

13. “I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

— Vincent van Gogh

14. “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”

— Vincent van Gogh

15. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

— Vincent van Gogh

16. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

— Vincent van Gogh

17. “The sadness will last forever.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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18. “It is good to 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 well done.”

— Vincent van Gogh

19. “In spite of everything, I shall rise again.”

— Vincent van Gogh

20. “I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Vincent van Gogh

22. “Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you’re put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”

— Vincent van Gogh

23. “I will not live without love.”

— Vincent van Gogh

24. “One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”

— Vincent van Gogh

25. “The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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26. “I’ll start with small things.”

— Vincent van Gogh

27. “There is peace even in the storm.”

— Vincent van Gogh

28. “Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.”

— Vincent van Gogh

29. “Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.”

— Vincent van Gogh

30. “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

— Vincent van Gogh

31. “I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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32. “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”

— Vincent van Gogh

33. “But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.”

— Vincent van Gogh

34. “As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.”

— Vincent van Gogh

35. “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.”

— Vincent van Gogh

36. “The more you love, the more you suffer.”

— Vincent van Gogh

37. “To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one’s fling from time to time, smoke one’s pipe, and drink one’s coffee in peace.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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38. “Conscience is a man’s compass.”

— Vincent van Gogh

39. “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say “he feels deeply, he feels tenderly”.”

— Vincent van Gogh

40. “Someday death will take us to another star.”

— Vincent van Gogh

41. “Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.”

— Vincent van Gogh

42. “The sight of stars makes me dream.”

— Vincent van Gogh

43. “In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”

— Vincent van Gogh

44. “Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Vincent van Gogh

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46. “Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.”

— Vincent van Gogh

47. “If you end up falling in love with someone, it’s because of them. If you end up hating someone, it’s because of you.”

— Vincent van Gogh

48. “The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.”

— Vincent van Gogh

49. “Art is but imitation of nature.”

— Vincent van Gogh

50. “There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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