Vincent van Gogh

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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

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

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

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.