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 shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it. - Vincent van Gogh
I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove. - Vincent van Gogh
I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought. - 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 I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may. - 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
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, scepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. - 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
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. - Vincent van Gogh
It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing. - Vincent van Gogh
It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. - Vincent van Gogh
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