The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings โ not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.
Vincent Van GoghIf one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
Vincent Van GoghIt always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolationโof loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of thingsโthe thought of God comes into one's mind.
Vincent Van GoghPainting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.
Vincent Van Gogh