Top 400 Vincent Van Gogh Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.”

— Vincent van Gogh

102. “I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.”

— Vincent van Gogh

103. “You can’t be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.”

— Vincent van Gogh

104. “If you don’t have a dog – at least one – there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”

— Vincent van Gogh

105. “We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone.”

— Vincent van Gogh

106. “How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.”

— Vincent van Gogh

107. “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.”

— Vincent van Gogh

108. “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.”

— Vincent van Gogh

109. “I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.”

— Vincent van Gogh

110. “For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can’t really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that’s to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can’t get on with the work.”

— Vincent van Gogh

111. “Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground – yet that ground is very dark...”

— Vincent van Gogh

112. “I never get tired of the blue sky.”

— Vincent van Gogh

113. “The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.”

— Vincent van Gogh

114. “We have very beautiful bad weather here at present – rain, wind, thunder – but with splendid effects; that’s why I like it.”

— Vincent van Gogh

115. “Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.”

— Vincent van Gogh

116. “What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.”

— Vincent van Gogh

117. “As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

— Vincent van Gogh

118. “Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.”

— Vincent van Gogh

119. “The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.”

— Vincent van Gogh

120. “Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.”

— Vincent van Gogh

121. “I thought I would be understood without words.”

— Vincent van Gogh

122. “How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?”

— Vincent van Gogh

123. “There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!”

— Vincent van Gogh

124. “I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.”

— Vincent van Gogh

125. “I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.”

— Vincent van Gogh

126. “So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.”

— Vincent van Gogh

127. “In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”

— Vincent van Gogh

128. “Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.”

— Vincent van Gogh

129. “It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.”

— Vincent van Gogh

130. “Love is something eternal.”

— Vincent van Gogh

131. “As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.”

— Vincent van Gogh

132. “Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.”

— Vincent van Gogh

133. “I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.”

— Vincent van Gogh

134. “The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.”

— Vincent van Gogh

135. “There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.”

— Vincent van Gogh

136. “You have first to experience what you want to express.”

— Vincent van Gogh

137. “Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.”

— Vincent van Gogh

138. “I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.”

— Vincent van Gogh

139. “How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Vincent van Gogh

141. “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.”

— Vincent van Gogh

142. “My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.”

— Vincent van Gogh

143. “I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.”

— Vincent van Gogh

144. “The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.”

— Vincent van Gogh

145. “I shouldn’t precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can’t very well get out of it.”

— Vincent van Gogh

146. “God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them.”

— Vincent van Gogh

147. “The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.”

— Vincent van Gogh

148. “The only thing to do is to go one’s own way, to try one’s best, to make the thing live.”

— Vincent van Gogh

149. “Only when I fall do I get up again.”

— Vincent van Gogh

150. “In trees, I see expression and soul.”

— Vincent van Gogh