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“Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“If one loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“To understand blue you must first understand yellow and orange”
― Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh's 'Diary': The Artist's Life in His Own Words and Art

“be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“I know well that healing comes-if one is brave-from within, through profound resignation to suffering and death, through the surrender of your own will and of your self-love. But that is of no use to me; I love to paint, to see people and things and everything that makes our life-artificial, if you like. Yes, real life would be a different thing, but I do not belong to that category of souls who are ready to live and also at any moment to suffer. I am everything but courageous in sorrow, and everything but patient when I am not feeling well, though I have rather a good deal of patience in keeping to my work.”
― Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo

“I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has broken the spell of 'you can't' once and for all.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“She and I are two unhappy ones who keep together and carry our burdens together, and in this way unhappiness is changed to joy, and the unbearable becomes bearable.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and “que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs.” What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead.”
― Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo

“In would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“...a woman does not grow old as long as she loves & is loved.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“How difficult it is to be simple!”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it with great deal of drawing and not much colour, how not to do it with a great deal of colour and not much drawing.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.”
― Van Gogh on "The Night Cafe" painting

“The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Love is something eternal... The aspect may change but not the essence.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“What would be of life if we didn´t have the courage of doing something new?”
― Vincent van Gogh

“A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Future generations will probably be able to enlighten us on this very interesting subject, and then science itself—with all due respect—may reach conclusions that are more or less in keeping with Christ's sayings about the other half of our life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“For the third of desire is never filled or satisfied, but those who have these luxuries are fortunes not only by the wish to get more but also by the fear of losing what they already have”
― Ciel Phantomhive