Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Dutch painter

Lived from: 1853 - 1890

Category: Artists Country: FlagNetherlands

Born: 30 march 1853 Died: 29 july 1890

  • But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
  • If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced.

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  • But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
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  • A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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  • Conscience is a man's compass.
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  • Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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  • Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
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  • Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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  • I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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  • I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
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  • I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
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  • I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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  • If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
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  • If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
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  • If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced.
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  • It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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  • 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.
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  • Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
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  • One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
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  • Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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  • The best way to know God is to love many things.
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  • The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
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What are the most famous quotes from Vincent Van Gogh?

The two most famous quotes from Vincent Van Gogh are:

  • "But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."
  • "A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."

When did Vincent Van Gogh live?

Vincent Van Gogh was born in 1853 and died in the year 1890.