Salah Uddin > Salah's Quotes

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“La tristesse durera toujours.
[The sadness will last forever.]”
― Vincent van Gogh

“There is peace even in the storm”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“I’m trying now to exaggerate the essence of things, and to deliberately leave vague what’s obvious.”
― Vincent Van Gogh, Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh - III vols

“I wish they would take me as I am.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“The best way to know life is to love many things”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“The more you love, the more you suffer”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away”
― 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

“It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“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

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

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

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I thought I would be understood without words”
― Vincent van Gogh

“You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.”
― Bob Marely