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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Van Gogh asked,
The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.
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...