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.

Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come...

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come...

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars...

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars...

Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the...

Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the...

The way to know life is to love many things.

The way to know life is to love many things.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a...

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a...

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and...

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and...

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more...

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more...

Conscience is a man's compass

Conscience is a man's compass

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much,...

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much,...

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I...

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I...

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become...

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become...

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that...

In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that...

It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print:...

It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print:...

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come...

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come...