art is to console those who are broken by life (view of paris from vincent’s room in the rue lepic - 1887)
there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people (the gleize bridge over the vigueirat canal - 1888)
the beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right (almond blossoms - 1890)
if you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere (a lane in the public garden at arles - 1888)
i often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day (starry night over the rhône - 1888)
i don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream (imperial fritillaries in a copper vase - 1887)
it is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done (congregation leaving the reformed church in nuenen - 1884)
i am always doing what i cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it (green wheat field with cypress - 1889)
the heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too (the church at auvers - 1890)
it is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning (the red vineyard - 1888)