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.
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.
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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...
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.
All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
And rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
[They say I imagine — it is not true — I remember.]
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
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 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...
The artist has to take risks.
I have to make my drawing right so that my drawing will be right.
How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.
Fortune is beastly — it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
Do you call yourself an artist? Yes. How absurd. You never sold a picture in your life. Is that what being an artist means—selling? I thought it meant one who was always seeking without absolutely fin...
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
Said vice-admiral, Uncle Jan shook his head, his face became even more concerned. Vice-admiral could not believe that there would be such a thickhead in Van Gogh family.