Home > Work > المخلص دوما، فنسنت: الجواهر من رسائل فان جوخ
1 " If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and that’s a lie… That leads to stagnation, to mediocrity. Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility. "
― Vincent van Gogh , المخلص دوما، فنسنت: الجواهر من رسائل فان جوخ
2 " For love is something positive, so strong, so real that it is impossible for one who loves to take back that feeling...So I remain calm and confident through all this, and that influences my work, which attracts me more than ever, just because I feel I shall succeed. Not that I shall become anything extraordinary, but “ordinary,” and then I mean by ordinary, that my work will be sound and reasonable, and will have a right to exist, and will serve to some end. I think that nothing awakens us to the reality of life so much as a true love… "
3 " There are idlers and idlers, who form a contrast. "