Vincent Van Gogh

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

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

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

Great things are done by a seris of small things brought together.

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.

Well, the fact is that one cannot retrace one's steps, and the steps one has taken greatly influence the future.

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is now wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

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.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.

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

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.