Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all. - Vincent van Gogh
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing. - Vincent van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. - Vincent van Gogh
Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes. - Vincent van Gogh
How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning. - Vincent van Gogh
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture. - Vincent van Gogh
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. - Vincent van Gogh
I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made. - Vincent van Gogh
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance. - Vincent van Gogh
I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness. - Vincent van Gogh
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'. - 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
In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. - Vincent van Gogh
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