“I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. 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
“If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear...”
— Vincent van Gogh