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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with V >> Quotes By Vincent Van Gogh |
| Quote #1: | "I wish they would only take me as I am." |
| Quote #2: | "I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate." |
| Quote #3: | "The best way to know God is to love many things." |
| Quote #4: | "Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall." |
| Quote #5: | "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." |
| Quote #6: | "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. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle." |
| Quote #7: | "How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be" |
| Quote #8: | "One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way." |
| Quote #9: | "A good picture is equivalent to a good deed." |
| Quote #10: | "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything" |
| Quote #11: | "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." |
| Quote #12: | "It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent." |
| Quote #13: | "If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things." |
| Quote #14: | "Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more." |
| Quote #15: | "Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model." |
| Quote #16: | "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." |
| Quote #17: | "Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul." |
| Quote #18: | "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." |
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