Любовта е солта на живота; човек има нужда от нея, за да подчертае вкуса на света.
There is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris.
You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry.[Vincent Van Gogh]
You can only have the courage and strength to do what you think is right. It may turn out to be wrong, but you will at least have done it, and that is the important thing. We must act according to the...
Wiedział dawniej, że można złamać rękę lub nogę i wyzdrowieć; do tej pory nie wiedział jednak, że można wyzdrowieć po ataku szaleństwa.
When I was young, Monsieur, he said, I used to think a lot about God. But He seems to have grown thinner with the years. He is still in that cornfield you painted, and in the sunset by Montmajour, but...
Viața însăși îndreaptă spre om o față goală, nepăsătoare, descurajantă, pe care nu se citește nimic, ca și pe pânza asta goală. Dar omul nu se sperie de acest gol, pășește plin de încredere și de cura...
Toulouse-Lautrec blew in, winded from six flights of stairs, but still as hilarious and ribald as ever. Vincent, he exclaimed, while shaking hands, I passed an undertaker on the stairs. Was he looking...
There seemed to be that same fierce quest after truth, the same unafraid penetration, the same feeling that character is beauty, no matter how sordid it may appear.
The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
Nimeni nu poate scăpa de suferință, cel mai bun lucru pe care îl putem face e să nu suferim orbește.
It's pleasant to get used to the expensive, the soft, the comfortable. Once you're addicted, it's so easy to become a sycophant, to trim the sails of your judgment in order to be kept on. The next ste...
His sculpture would have joy in it, try to capture the sense of fertility of Dionysus, the nature god, the power of the intoxicating drink that enabled a man to laugh and sing and forget for a while t...
He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, 'Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness keep you from your books.
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
And rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
گوگن: آقای ون گوگ پاریس را چطور می بینید؟ون گوگ: خیلی دوست دارمگوگن: عجیبه! همه همین را میگن! من به سهم خودم پاریس را خاکروبه دونیِ بزرگی می دونم که تمدن هم خاکروبه اش استشور زندگی، ایروینگ ستون
You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, an...