Цитаты из книги Pasja życia

Когда тебя не будет на свете, Винсент, мир поймет, что ты хотел сказать. Полотна, которые ты не можешь продать сегодня за сотню франков, будут стоить миллионы. Ах, ты смеешься, но я говорю тебе правду.

Всякое великое искусство порождается ненавистью.

Если я не смогу найти хорошую жену, то возьму плохую. Лучше плохая жена, чем никакой.

He could do without a wife, a home, and children; he could do without love and friendship and health; he could do without security, comfort, and food; he could even do without God. But he could not do without something which was greater than himself, which was his life—the power and ability to create.

The public cannot understand that there is no room for moral judgements in art. Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

You've worked out your craft for yourself. You paint like Vincent Van Gogh, and nobody else in the world. If you had come here before you crystallized your own particular expression, Paris would have moulded you to suit itself.

If you wore that outfit anywhere but in Paris, you'd be arrested!

You don't know Paris until you smell it in the early morning.

"Weissenbruch, sometimes you're an angel and sometimes you're a fiend!" "That's for variety, so my friends won't get tired of me."

Earn bread... or deserve bread? Not to deserve one's bread, that is to say, to be unworthy of it, that certainly is a crime, for every honest man is worthy of his bread. But unluckily, not being able to earn it, though deserving it, that is a misfortune, and a great one.

Besides, this new activity had a curious special quality; it was his and nobody else's. He could not bring himself to talk or write about his sketches. He felt a reticence about them that he had not felt for anything before, a disinclination to let strange eyes see his work. They were, in some crude and incomprehensible way, sacred, even though they might be wretchedly amaturish in every last detail.

He did not write home to tell them what he was doing because he knew they would say, and rightly, "Oh, Vincent is at one of his fads again. When will he settle down and do something useful?"

Любить – вот что важно, любить, а не быть любимым. 

Жизнь женщины пуста, если в ней нет любви. 

Сознание того, что она рядом, наполняло его ощущением необыкновенной полноты жизни.

Что вы понимаете под коммунизмом? Я считаю, что каждый должен трудиться столько, сколько позволяют ему силы, и заниматься тем делом, которое ему по сердцу, а взамен этого получать все, в чем он нуждается.

Нет ничего более художественного, чем любить людей

Лучше печаль, чем радость, ибо сердце печально даже в радости. 

Разве я обязана выходить за каждого, кто в меня влюбится?