Vincent van Gogh

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

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you.

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.

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

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

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

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.

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

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

Wierzę, że im bardziej się kocha, tym więcej się czyni, gdyż miłości, która nie jest niczym więcej niż uczuciem, nie mógłbym nawet nazwać miłością.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.