Love Quotes Quote by Vincent Van Gogh — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“(...) it was in this extreme poverty that I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I’ll recover from it, I’ll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I’ll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me, and now I’m on my way and my pencil has become somewhat obedient and seems to become more so day by day. It was poverty, too long and too severe, that had discouraged me to the point where I could no longer do anything.”

“My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.”

“It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.”

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

“La tristesse durera toujours.”

“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”

“You can’t fool people into loving you.”

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”

““So for now,”

““Yours”

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”