Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

Love is the best and the noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold is tested by fire.

Baharda çilek yemek, evet, olur böyle ÅŸeyler yaÅŸamda, ama y?l?n çok k?sa bir bölümünde yaln?zca ve ÅŸu s?ra çok uzakta.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes

Don't regret that your life is too easy, mine is rather easy too; I think that life is pretty long and that the time will arrive soon enough in which "another shall gird thee and carry thee where thou wouldst not.

You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter, 'You can't do a thing'.

I have had no "guidance or teaching" from others to speak of, but taught myself; no wonder my technique, considered superficially, differs from that of others. But that's no reason for my work to remain unsaleable. I feel pretty sure that the large "Sorrow," "The Old Woman of the Geest," the "Old Man," and others, will find a purchaser someday.

One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness.

Es bueno amar tanto como se pueda, porque ahí radica la verdadera fuerza. Y el que mucho ama realiza grandes cosas y se siente capaz, y lo que hace por amor está bien hecho

Oh, I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its founder was sublime- I have seen through present-day Christianity only too well. That icy coldness mesmerized even me, in my youth- but I have taken my revenge since then. How? By worshipping the love which they, the theologians, call sin, by respecting a whore, etc, To some, woman is heresy and diabolical. To me she is the opposite.ov

If I should later come to see that I did wrong, well, then I shall of course be sorry, but as it is I have been unable to see how else I could possibly have acted. When somebody tells me decisively, 'Get out of my house, the sooner the better, in half an hour rather than an hour,' well then, my dear fellow, it doesn't take a quarter of an hour for me to leave, never to return either.

Ve kiÅŸi, kad?nlar? çal??malar?n?n d???nda tutmakla çaÄŸd??? bir tutum içine girmiÅŸ olur. Her yerde ayn? bu, ister kentte ol ister k?rsal yörelerde; zamana ayak uydurmak istiyorsan eÄŸer, kad?nlar? mutlaka hesaba katacaks?n.

Biliyorsun, ÅŸakay?k çiçeÄŸi Jeannine'ndir, hatmi çiçeÄŸi Quost'a aittir, ayçiçeÄŸi de galiba biraz benim...

No particular reason for anything. ~I'm free~ And that is the main thing.

If the emotions are sometimes so strong that one works without knowing one works, when sometimes the strokes come with a continuity and a coherence like words in a speech or a letter, then one must remember that it has not always been so, and that in time to come there will again be hard days, empty of inspiration. So one must strike while the iron is hot, and put the forged bars on one side.

Je t'ai envoyé aujourd'hui mon portrait à moi; il faut le regarder pendant quelque temps, tu verras, j'espère que ma physionomie s'est bien calmée, quoique le regard soit vague davantage qu'auparavant, à ce qui me parait.

One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.

Housed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the following plate was completed in 1886, portraying the unusual subject of a skeleton smoking a cigarette. The work has roused many interpretations, including a depiction of mortality and a prophetic cry of the dangers of tobacco. In the next two years, van Gogh painted two other paintings with skulls, illustrating his fascination with the macabre subject.

If there is anything I regret then it is that period when I allowed mystical and theological profundities to mislead me into withdrawing too much into myself. …..When you wake up in the morning and find you are not alone but can see a fellow creature there in the half-light, it makes the world look so much more welcoming. Much ,more welcoming than the devotional journals and whitewashed church walls beloved of clergymen.

For look: people used to think that the earth was flat. That was true, and still is today, of, say, Paris to Asniéres. But that does not alter the fact that science demonstrates that the earth as a whole is round, something nobody nowadays disputes. For all that, people still persist in thinking that life is flat and runs from birth to death. But life, too, is probably round, and much greater in scope and possibilities than the hemisphere we now know.

Now, I'm going through a similar period of struggle and despondency, of patience and impatience, of hope and desolation. But I must plod on and anyway, after a while I'll understand more about making watercolours. If it were that easy, one wouldn't take any pleasure in it. And it's exactly the same with painting.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

There are idlers and idlers, who form a contrast.

Painters understand nature & love her & teach us to see.

Spero di avere un po' di fortuna con quel quadro dei mangiatori di patate.