Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
The following are quotes from Vincent Van Gogh:
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
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 wish they would only take me as I am.
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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.
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
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 come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything
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