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Vincent van Gogh Quotes: 17

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.
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
La tristesse durera toujours.[The sadness will last forever.]
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.
There is peace even in the storm
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Only when I fall do I get up again.
I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.
Van Gogh's Starry Night Notebook