Vincent van Gogh Quotes

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.

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

There is safety in the very heart of danger.

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one’s soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings—joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile.