Van Gogh asked,
Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit...
I will be an artist. I am sure I will.[Vincent Van Gogh]
God is imagined as a rich, old gentleman who is very happy that things are going so smooth here on Earth that he had created.
An empty stomach is better than full and grief is better than happiness.
An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
After all, the world is still great.
The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.
Normal people do not create art.
It was like penetrating deep into white marble with the pounding live thrust of his chisel beating upward through the warm living marble with one Go!, his whole body behind the heavy hammer, penetrati...