It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

— Vincent van Gogh

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— Vincent van Gogh

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

— Vincent van Gogh

Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

— Vincent van Gogh

Many people seem to think it's 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

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectness, those deviations, remodel lings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

— Vincent van Gogh

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

— Vincent van Gogh

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

— Vincent van Gogh

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

— Vincent van Gogh

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

— Vincent van Gogh