top of page

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Dream quotes

"When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, "Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end."

"They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say."

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"

"Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart."

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."
Explore more quotes by Vincent Van Gogh


"An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men."


"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."


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


"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."


"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."


"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."
bottom of page