Vincent Van Gogh

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

The way to know life is to love many things.

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

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

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

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

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.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.