Vincent Van Gogh

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

Vincent Van Gogh

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

Vincent Van Gogh

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

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

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

Vincent Van Gogh

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

Vincent Van Gogh

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

Vincent Van Gogh

Someday death will take us to another star.

Vincent Van Gogh

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

Vincent Van Gogh