How much sadness there is in life. Still, it won’t do to become depressed, one should turn to other things, and the right thing is work, but there ar… - Vincent van Gogh

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How much sadness there is in life. Still, it won’t do to become depressed, one should turn to other things, and the right thing is work, but there are times when one can only find peace of mind in the realization: I, too, shall not be spared by unhappiness”_Page.241

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About Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. Not commercially successful, he struggled with severe depression and poverty, eventually leading to his suicide at age thirty-seven.

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Alternative Names: Vincent Willem van Gogh van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh Van Gogh

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Yalnızca ressamları ele alacak olursak, ölmüş, gömülmüş olanlar da yapıtları aracılığıyla bir sonraki ya da birbirini izleyen birkaç kuşağa bir şeyler söyleyebiliyorlar.
Hepsi bu mu, yoksa daha fazlası var mı? Bir ressamın yaşamında en zor şey ölüm değildir belki de.
Kendi payıma, bu konuda bir şey bilmediğimi kabul ediyorum. Ama yıldızlara baktığımda düşlere dalıyorum, tıpkı bir haritada kentleri ve köyleri gösteren siyah noktalara bakarken düşlere daldığım gibi. Neden, diye soruyorum kendime, gökte pırıl pırıl parlayan noktalar da Fransa haritasındaki kara noktalar kadar ulaşılabilir olmasın? Bizi Tarascon ya da Rouen'a nasıl bir tren götürüyorsa, yıldızlara da ölüm götürür. Bu düşüncede kuşkusuz doğru olan bir şey varsa, o da şu: Yaşadığımız sürece yıldızlara varamayız, nasıl ki öldükten sonra trene binemeyiz, öyle.
Dolayısıyla, kolera, böbrek taşları, verem, kanser gibi şeyler göksel ulaşım araçlarıdırlar gibi geliyor bana; vapur, otobüs, tren türünden yeryüzü ulaşım araçları gibi aynı... Yaşlılık yüzünden sessizce ölmek oraya yürüyerek gitmek gibi bir şey.

Now for the past five years or so, I don't know how long exactly, I have been more or less without permanent employment, wandering from pillar to post. You will say, ever since such and such a time you have been going downhill, you have been feeble, you have done nothing. Is that entirely true?

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Text: Psalm 119:19. I am a stranger on the earth, hide not Thy command ments from me.
Are we what we dreamt we should be? No, but still the sorrows of life.. .,so much more numerous than we expected, the tossing to and fro in the world, they have covered it over, but it is not dead, it sleepeth.

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