I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
It interests me tremendously to make copies ... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things. 
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. 
Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better. 
Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature. 
So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light. 
My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself. 
The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts. 
Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred. 
We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it. 
Life is too short to do the whole. 
I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully. 
If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may. 
I thought I would be understood without words. 
The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental. 
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. ![Vincent Van Gogh quotes: La tristesse durera toujours.[The sadness will last forever.]](http://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/vincent-van-gogh-quotes-730849.jpg "Vincent Van Gogh quotes: La tristesse durera toujours.[The sadness will last forever.]")
La tristesse durera toujours.[The sadness will last forever.]
What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life. 
Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you 
The best way to know life is to love many things 
Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains. 
We take death to reach a star 
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. 
Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures. 
The sunflower is mine, in a way. 
You have first to experience what you want to express. 
Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark ... 
If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself. 
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go. 
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. 
There is nothing more artistic than loving people. 
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. 
T has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting. 
I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. 
In would rather die of passion than of boredom. 
One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with. 
I want to do drawings which touch some people ... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. 
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter. 
I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply. 
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. 
It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it. 
Do you know that drawing with words is also an art ... ? 
What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it. 
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. 
If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice. 
That is how I look at it; to continue, to continue, that is what is necessary. 
I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too. 
I'll start with small things. 
The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed. 
Love makes one calmer about things, and that way, one is fit for one's work. 
Love is something eternal ... The aspect may change but not the essence. 
By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it ... 
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage. 
Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit. 
I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process. 
What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way? 
Conscience is a man's compass. 