If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent van Gogh

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Vincent van Gogh

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.

Vincent van Gogh

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent van Gogh

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent van Gogh

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

Vincent van Gogh

When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent van Gogh