Vincent Van Gogh: Frases en inglés (página 5)

“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”

“It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.”

“But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.”

“I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening… like a light in the midst of the darkness.”

“Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.”

“What is done in love is done well.”

“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”

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

“The best way to know life is to love many things”

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.”

“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

“What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.”

“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.”

“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.”

“Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”

“We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words”

“There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.”

“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”

“In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.”