Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

Asl?nda zorluklar?n üstünde fazla düÅŸünmüyorum, çünkü bunlar üstünde gereÄŸinden fazla durdun mu sersemliyorsun ya da iyice bozuluyorsun.

Los pescadores saben que el mar es peligroso y la tormenta, terrible. Pero eso no les impide hacerse a la mar

Still, a great deal of light falls on everything

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

Could it not be the case that if one loves something one sees it better and more truly than if one did not love it?

En ender rastlanan çiçeklerin açt??? yerleri bilirdi.

La conciencia es la brújula humana

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life - the power to create. And if, defrauded of the power to create physically, a man tries to create thoughts in place of children, he is still very much part of humanity.

My dear sister, it is my belief that it is actually one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love. The more ugly, old, mean, ill, poor I get, the more I want to take my revenge by producing a brilliant colour, well arranged, resplendent.

How much sadness there is in life. Still, it won't do to become depressed, one should turn to other things, and the right thing is work, but there are times when one can only find peace of mind in the realization: I, too, shall not be spared by unhappiness"_Page.241

Wat is het moeilijk om het gewone leven weer op te pakken en niet totaal ontmoedigd te raken door de onafwendbaarheid van de ellende

The day will come, however, when people will see they are worth more than the price of the paint and my living expenses, very meagre on the whole, which we put into them"_ Page.419

Art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from man's soul"_Page.268

Neither Gauguin nor Bernard has written again. I think that Gauguin doesn't care a damn about it, because it isn't going to be done at once, and I for my part, seeing that Gauguin has managed to muddle along by himself for six months, am ceasing to believe in the urgent necessity of helping him.

Anyone who leads an upright life and experiences real difficulty and disappointment and yet is not crushed by them is worth more than one for whom everything has always been plain sailing and who has known nothing but relative prosperity"_Page.52

can you tell what goes on within by looking at what happens without? There may be a great fire in your soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself by it, all that passers-by can see is a little smoke coming out of the chimney and they walk on"_Page.70-71

It is clear to me that there is a je ne sais quoi - I already see it in your words, pictures of some little corners in Paris, etc., even now I should see it in your first sketches and studies. When I think of Father, it seems to me that the good in him is due to his intercourse with nature, and in my opinion his error is that he attaches more value to other things than they are really worth.

one must never let the fire in one's soul die, for the time will inevitably come when it will be needed.

How does one become mediocre? By complying with and conforming to one thing today and another tomorrow, as the world dictates, by never contradicting the world and by heeding public opinion"_Page.250

The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, so much more am I an artist.

The more I think it over, the more I feel that is is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I do not say - far, very far be it from me to say - that I myself have the rayon blanc, but I am not ashamed to say that it exists, this White Light - and that I seek it, and only this do I consider simplicity.

I always believe that I have a certain toughness in common with the peasants, who also do not eat so particularly well, and yet live and work on.

I'd wish that everyone had what I'm gradually beginning to acquire, the ability to read a book easily and quickly and to retain a strong impression of it. Reading books is like looking at paintings: without doubting, without hesitating, with self-assurance, one must find beautiful that which is beautiful.