Vincent van Gogh

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

Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

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

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

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

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

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.