How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- 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

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

- Vincent Van Gogh

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

- 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.

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

The way to know life is to love many things.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Conscience is a man's compass.

- Vincent Van Gogh

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become 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

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

- Vincent Van Gogh

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

- Vincent Van Gogh

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

The best way to know God is to love many things.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

- Vincent Van Gogh