Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

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.
Vincent Van Gogh

Nature, Important, Feeling

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh

Love, God, Best

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh

Good, Picture, Deed

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh

Life, God, Power

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Vincent Van Gogh

Service, Inside, Useful

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van Gogh

Poetry, Easy, Looking

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
Vincent Van Gogh

Pictures, Drawings, Corners

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Vincent Van Gogh

Life, Soul, Painter

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van Gogh

Men, Become, Ambition

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh

Faith, Opinion, Public

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Vincent Van Gogh

Blue, Yellow, Orange

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Vincent Van Gogh

Love, Good, True

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent Van Gogh

Work, Live, Wants

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

Men, Heart, Artist

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

Time, Same, Master

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van Gogh

Good, Knowledge, Scientific

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Artist

Born: March 30, 1853

Died: July 29, 1890

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