9. “As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.”

10. “An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.”

11. “The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well-arranged, resplendent.”

12. “Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”

13. “I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.”

14. “The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.” 

15. “What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.”

16. “I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.”

17. “I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening… like a light in the midst of the darkness.”

18. “My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.”

19. “I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.”

20. “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.’”

Vincent van Gogh Quotes About Life and Death

21. “The way to know life is to love many things.”

22. “Someday death will take us to another star.”

23. “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”

24. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

25. “It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”