Vincent Van Gogh was one of the famous painters of the Netherlands. He was born on March 30, 1853, and his birthday is celebrated as world bipolar day. His post-impressionist painting left an indelible mark on the modern art of the 20th century. In the beginning, he worked in many places. He did missionary work for the mineworkers in Borinaz, Belgium. From this, the path of his painting was prepared. In nine years, Vincent van Gogh created more than 2100 works of art. Out of which about eight and a half hundred are oil paintings. He is considered one of the founders of modern art. Vincent van Gogh began painting at the age of 28 and produced some of his most important works in the last two years of his life. Self-portraits, landscapes, images, and sunflowers composed by him are among the world’s most famous and expensive works of art. Check out this collection of the best Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Art, Life, Night, Stars, and Love which are aesthetic and deep too.
Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
- “Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.” – Vincent van Gogh
“Conscience is a man’s compass” – Vincent van Gogh
- “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh
- “I consciously choose the dog’s path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter…” – 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
- Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all. – Vincent van Gogh
- I dream my painting and I paint my dream. – Vincent van Gogh
- There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. – Vincent van Gogh
- I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. – Vincent van Gogh
- A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke– Vincent van Gogh
- I would rather die of passion than of boredom. – 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
- I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process. – Vincent van Gogh
- I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. – Vincent van Gogh
- Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. – Vincent van Gogh
- What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? – Vincent van Gogh
The sadness will last forever. – Vincent van Gogh
- I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove. – Vincent van Gogh
- I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. – Vincent van Gogh
- Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent van Gogh
- If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. – Vincent van Gogh
- I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. – Vincent van Gogh
- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. – Vincent van Gogh
- It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. – 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
- The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right. – Vincent van Gogh
- Art is to console those who are broken by life. – 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
- Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. – Vincent van Gogh
- I wish they would take me as I am. – Vincent van Gogh
- The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting. – Vincent van Gogh
- 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
- There is peace even in the storm– 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
- In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. – Vincent van Gogh
- I will not live without love. – Vincent van Gogh
- Someday death will take us to another star. – Vincent van Gogh
- To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life
- The sunflower is mine, in a way. – Vincent van Gogh
- Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. – Vincent van Gogh
- The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too– Vincent van Gogh
- Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. – Vincent van Gogh
- So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world. – Vincent van Gogh
- Only when I fall do I get up again. – 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
- If you don’t have a dog–at least one–there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. – Vincent van Gogh
- It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one’s youth. – Vincent van Gogh
- When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion, then I go out and paint the stars.
- Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. – 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
- Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough. – Vincent van Gogh
- confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream. – 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
- One must work and dare if one really wants to live. – Vincent van Gogh
- What is done in love is done well. – Vincent van Gogh
- The best way to know life is to love many things– 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
- What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life. – Vincent van Gogh
- Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. – Vincent van Gogh
- Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures. – Vincent van Gogh
- Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire. – Vincent van Gogh
- We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words– Vincent van Gogh
- The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all. – Vincent van Gogh
- For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream. – Vincent van Gogh
- Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. – Vincent van Gogh
- An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men– Vincent van Gogh
- What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way? – Vincent van Gogh
- We are surrounded by poetry on all sides… – Vincent van Gogh
- I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance. – Vincent van Gogh
- Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. – Vincent van Gogh
- Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any. – 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
- It’s better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide. – Vincent van Gogh
- The more you love, the more you suffer– Vincent van Gogh
If one loves nature one finds beauty everywhere. – Vincent van Gogh
- I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. – Vincent van Gogh
- I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. – Vincent van Gogh
- That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter. – Vincent van Gogh
- The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner. – Vincent van Gogh
- I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields. – 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
What is a famous quote by Vincent Van Gogh about drawing?
Vincent Van Gogh said, “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” This shows his love for drawing and paintings. We can say that he loved his work so much that he dreamt of it every night.
Why World Bipolar Day is dedicated to painter Vincent Van Gogh?
The World Bipolar Day is celebrated on birthday of Vincent Van Gogh as he was posthumously diagnosed as having a bipolar condition. He also came to be known as tortured artist and has cut off his own ear.
