Quotes From Vincent Van Gogh

“One must make sure that youth shares as little as possible in the disasters of society”.

“Violet the courage of spring and youth, ivy, the promise of life to come in both winter and death”.

“His lifelong obsession with food, and sporadic attempts at self starvation”.

“Throughout his life, his thoughts returned again and again to the places and events of his past”.

“Long after the children dispersed, they avidly exchanged books and reading recommendations as if no book was truly read until all had read it”.

“The van gogh children entered the world of approved literature through two doors, poetry and fairy tales”.

“Eventually, every one of Anna's children developed a repotite of crafts to satisfy the demand for holiday tokens... And everybody learned to draw”.

“Associate only in civilized good circles. Virtually all success and happiness in life, she believed, flowed from mixing in good company; all failure and sin from falling into bad company”.

“The hearts luxuries (sensitivity and imagination)”.

“Degelijkhed, solidity, summoned the dutch heart to protect itself from the tides and storms of emotion that had proved so devastating in the past. History had taught that every triumph was followed by defeat, every plenty by want, every calm by upheaval, every Golden Age by apocalypse”.

"Doing nothing, is doing wrong, he warned”