In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

— Vincent van Gogh

In would rather die of passion than of boredom.

— Vincent van Gogh

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

— Vincent van Gogh

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.

— Vincent van Gogh

.it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

— Vincent van Gogh

I thought I would be understood without words.

— Vincent van Gogh

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

— Vincent van Gogh

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

— Vincent van Gogh

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings—joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile.

— Vincent van Gogh

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colors but the art of words exists too and will never be less important.

— Vincent van Gogh