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
One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. – Vincent Van Gogh
When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. – Vincent Van Gogh
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. – Vincent Van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. – Vincent Van Gogh
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
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. – Vincent Van Gogh
An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. – Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. – Vincent Van Gogh
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? – Vincent Van Gogh
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. – Vincent Van Gogh
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. – Vincent Van Gogh
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. – Vincent Van Gogh
