Vincent Van Gogh Life Quotations

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

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

What is done in love is done well.

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

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 done well.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

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, thatit 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.

A life without love is a sinful and immoral thing.

Look here, I often feel the same in more than one respect--not just in financial things, but in art itself, and in life in general. But do you think it's anything exceptional? Don't you think every man with a little spirit and energy has those moment

The way to know life is to love many things.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

... life is too short to do the whole.

Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the might breath which gives life to all things and in which is bound up remained.

It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.

Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words