I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it. Vincent Van Gogh More Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh More Quotes From Vincent Van Gogh For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh starsdreaminspirational Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction. Vincent Van Gogh tryingsometimesmen There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good. Vincent Van Gogh parisairbrain The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. Vincent Van Gogh takenmeanart To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow. Vincent Van Gogh drawingsticksthinking 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. Vincent Van Gogh infinitebabyneeds I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head. Vincent Van Gogh anxietymatterfeelings But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time. Vincent Van Gogh gratitudeyearsart It is the language of nature to which one has to listen. Vincent Van Gogh languagelistening I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, 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. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought. Vincent Van Gogh woe-is-megoalideas What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory. Vincent Van Gogh lonelinessmindfeelings The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live. Vincent Van Gogh things-to-dotryingway I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better. Vincent Van Gogh knowinggodthinking I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something. Vincent Van Gogh boardseyewhite No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely. Vincent Van Gogh orangeblueyellow 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 strengthheartmeaningful One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. Vincent Van Gogh lonelinessartistlove To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace Vincent Van Gogh drinkgood-workcoffee I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh dreaminspirationalart Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all. Vincent Van Gogh enchantedinfinitystars
