So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
Vincent Van GoghWe must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.
Vincent Van GoghTo try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
Vincent Van GoghI was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.
Vincent Van Gogh