“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”
Poetry
“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.”
ImaginationAll Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
Knowledge“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Great“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
Courage“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.”
Experience“The way to know life is to love many things.”
Love“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.”
Imagination“I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.”
God“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.”
Nature“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.”
Men“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.”
Faith“If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”
Men“There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”
Great“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.”
Time“But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
Best“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.”
Love“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.”
Love“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.”
Great“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.”
Imagination“The best way to know God is to love many things.”
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