Vincent Van Gogh

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your…

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to…

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything…

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a…

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the…

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people…

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful…

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when…

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should…

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together…

One must work and dare if one really wants to live…

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic…

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind…

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as…

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means…