I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it โ keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.
Vincent Van GoghWe 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: โHe is the one.โ 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 GoghThere is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder evenโthe French air clears up the brain and does goodโa world of good.
Vincent Van GoghThe only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.
Vincent Van GoghThe sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.
Vincent Van Gogh