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Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

Vincent van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) Dutch painter, generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art history.

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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.

I have often neglected my appearance. I admit it, and I also admit that it is "shocking."

I am good for something! My existence is not without reason! I know that I could be a quite a different person! How can I be of use, how can I be of service?

It is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!

I think that everything that is really good and beautiful, the inner, moral, spiritual and sublime beauty in men and their works, comes from God, and everything that is bad and evil in the works of men and in men is not from God, and God does not approve of it.

I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets — neither of us have any. Look here — I believe without question, or have the certain knowledge, that she loves me. I believe without question, or have the certain knowledge, that I love her. It has been sincerely meant.

To some, woman is heresy and diabolical. To me she is just the opposite.

No matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Conscience is a man's compass.

For me, the work is an absolute necessity. I cannot put it off...

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.