Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

Before telling you Vincent Van Gogh Quotes, I want to tell you a small introduction of him.

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter. He was born on 30 March 1853, Zundert, Netherlands, and died on 29 July 1890, Auvers-Sur-Oise, France.

He was generally considered to be the greatest after Rembrandt van Rijn, and one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists.

He was able to sell only one artwork during his life, but in the century after his death, he became the most recognized painter of all time. Starry Night, Sunflowers, Irises, and Self-Portrait are his most popular paintings. These paintings are considered as 12 Most Famous Paintings in History.

20 Vincent Van Gogh Quotes :

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Vincent Van Gogh

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance…I’m going like a painting-locomotive.

Vincent Van Gogh

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

Vincent Van Gogh

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent Van Gogh

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Vincent Van Gogh

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

Vincent Van Gogh

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Vincent Van Gogh

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony, and music inside me.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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