Vincent Van Gogh

"Only when I fall do I get up again."

"The way to know life is to love many things."

"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."

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

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

"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."

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

"It is good to 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 well done."

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

"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart."

"La tristesse durera toujours.[The sadness will last forever.]"

"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."

"It is good to 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 well done."

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."

"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."

"Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all."

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."