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Reading Vincent van Gogh

: A Thematic Guide to the Letters

Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh's reputation grew and developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident between his paintings and letters. However, the sheer bulk and complexity of Van Gogh's complete surviving correspondence presents

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“Which doctrine do I preach? People, let us surrender our souls to our cause and let us work with our heart and love what we love.”

— Patrick Grant, amazon.com

Tagged: Spirtuality, Belief, Passion, Love What You Do

“Most of those who have become something very good have gone through a long, difficult period of preparation that was the rock upon which their house was founded.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com

Tagged: The Obstacle Is The Way, It Takes Time, Quote of the Moment, Hard Work

“The difference between happiness and unhappiness, both are necessary and useful. Even in the face of an illness that’s unsettling or worrying, this belief is absolutely unshaken.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com

Tagged: Part and Parcel, Yin And Yang, Pain And Happiness

“To suffer without complaining is the only lesson that has to be learned in this life.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com

Tagged: Life Lessons, Life

“I imagine that in the end art for art’s sake—working for the sake of working—energy for energy’s sake—really becomes very important to all the good fellows.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com

Tagged: Art for Art’s Sake, What Makes A Good Life, Working

“In my view we all have moments of melancholy, of stress, of anguish, to a greater or lesser extent, and this is a condition of every self-conscious human life.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com

Tagged: Life Is Full of Pain, It's Okay To Suffer

“When one is always in respectable company and among reasonably well-to-do citizens, one may perhaps not notice it so much—but when, like me, one has been through very hard times, then it’s impossible to ignore the fact that great hardship is a factor that weighs in the balance.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com

Tagged: Hard Times, poor, Seeing The Pain of the World