Vincent Van Gogh Trying Quotations

Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith .

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.