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I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

Vincent Van Gogh
God, Thinking, Knowing
Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.136, Parkstone International

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

Vincent Van Gogh
Taken, Choices, Madness

Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals.

Vincent Van Gogh
Book, Artist, Men

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

Vincent Van Gogh
Beautiful, Book, Reading
Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

Vincent Van Gogh
Reflection, Reality, Mirrors
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

Vincent Van Gogh
Coffee, Diners, Form

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

Vincent Van Gogh
Path

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

Vincent Van Gogh
Couple, Men, Color
Derek Fell, Vincent van Gogh (2001). “Van Gogh's Gardens”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

Vincent Van Gogh
Lonely, Thinking, Self
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Men, Fellow Man
Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.17, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

We take death to reach a star

Vincent Van Gogh
Stars
Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.113, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

Vincent Van Gogh
Understanding, Neurosis, Someday
Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

Vincent Van Gogh
Dog, Path, Poor
Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.50, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

Vincent Van Gogh
Passion, Boredom, Dying

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

Vincent Van Gogh
Trying, Way, Things To Do
Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

To know life, one must love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh
Knows

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

Vincent Van Gogh
Color, Painting, Bones

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

Vincent Van Gogh
Causes, Favour, Trouble

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

Vincent Van Gogh
Stars, Infinity, Enchanted
Vincent Van Gogh (2003). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.380, Penguin UK

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Vincent Van Gogh
Love, Loneliness, Artist
Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.

Vincent Van Gogh
Worry, Second Thoughts, Stylish

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

Vincent Van Gogh
Beautiful, Morning
Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.

Vincent Van Gogh
Gratitude, Art, Years

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Vincent Van Gogh
Men, Trying, Sometimes
Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.

Vincent Van Gogh
Woe Is Me, Evil, Would Be

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