Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Letter to Theo, The Hague (October 22, 1882)
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Vincent van Gogh quotes
1853-1890 ยท Artists and entertainers
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter of The Starry Night.
5 quotes, 5 traced to where Gogh said or wrote them.
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Letter (September 18, 1888)
If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced, but only by working.
Letter to Theo, Drenthe (October 1883)
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.
Letter to Theo, no. 155 (June 1880)
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Letter to Theo, The Hague (March 18, 1883)