Vincent van Gogh Quotes: 12 Famous Quotes Quotes From Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch painter, generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art histor
Vincent van Gogh Quotes:
Vincent van Gogh Quotes
1. Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
― Vincent van Gogh
2. Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
― Vincent van Gogh
3. Occasionally, in times of worry, I’ve longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no—just let me be myself—and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
― Vincent van Gogh
4. It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
― Vincent van Gogh
5. I’m drawing a great deal and think it’s getting better.
― Vincent van Gogh
6. It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn’t easy to paint oneself either.
― Vincent van Gogh
7. Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
― Vincent van Gogh
8. 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.
― Vincent van Gogh
9. Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance…I’m going like a painting-locomotive.
― Vincent van Gogh
10. But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
― Vincent van Gogh
11. One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
― Vincent van Gogh
12. For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
― Vincent van Gogh
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