Vincent Van Gogh Famous Quotes
I wish they would only take me as I am.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
"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 done well."
"If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle."
"How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be"
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything
"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."
"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent."
"If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things."
"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."
Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
"There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."
Vincent Van Gogh Quotations
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'"
Sydney Harris
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb
"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you."
Paul William Bear Bryant
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
"Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
Vicki Baum
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Clarence Darrow
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
Persian Proverb
"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous."
Simone Weil
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran