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Zitate über Leben von Vincent Van Gogh
letzter Brief an seinen Bruder Theo van Gogh, 23. Juli 1890, Brief 652
„Nur vor der Staffelei beim Malen fühle ich ein wenig Leben.“
Brief an seine Schwester Wilhelmina Jacoba van Gogh, September 1889, zitiert nach Matthias Arnold: Vincent van Gogh: Biographie, München (Kindler-Verlag) 1993, ISBN 3-463-40205-X
Original franz.: "Ce n’est que devant le chevalet en peignant que je sens un peu de vie." - an Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 19. September 1889, vangoghletters.org http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let804/letter.html
Zitate über Herz von Vincent Van Gogh
Antwerpener Skizzenbuch, zitiert nach Mark Edo Tralbaut: Vincent van Gogh in zijn Antwerpsche periode, Amsterdam 1948, p. 44 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=MbNBAQAAIAAJ&q=afb.%20iv, books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=MbNBAQAAIAAJ&q=gemuth. Der im Original deutschsprachige Text ist offensichtlich die Paraphrasierung einer Strophe aus Heinrich Heines "Buch der Lieder" (1827) S. 186 de.wikisource https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Du_sch%C3%B6nes_Fischerm%C3%A4dchen,
Vincent Van Gogh Zitate und Sprüche
„Je mehr man liebt, um so tätiger wird man sein.“
Brief an Anthon G.A. Ritter van Rappard, Mai 1883
Original niederl.: "Hoe meer men lief heeft hoe meer men handelen zal [geloof ik, want liefde die enkel een gevoel zou wezen die zou ’k niet eens onder de liefde willen rekenen]." - an Anthon van Rappard. Den Haag, etwa 21. Mai 1883, vangoghletters.org http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let345/letter.html
6. September 1889 in Saint-Rémy, zitiert nach Matthias Arnold: Vincent van Gogh: Biographie, München (Kindler-Verlag) 1993, ISBN 3-463-40205-X
„Mit einem Bild möchte ich etwas Tröstliches sagen, so wie Musik tröstlich ist.“
Brief an Theo van Gogh. Arles, 3. September 1888
Original franz.: "Et dans un tableau je voudrais dire quelque chose de consolant comme une musique." - vangoghletters.org http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let673/letter.html
Brief vom 21. Mai 1889 aus Saint-Rémy an seinen Bruder Theo van Gogh, zitiert nach Matthias Arnold: Vincent van Gogh: Biographie, München (Kindler-Verlag) 1993, ISBN 3-463-40205-X
Brief an Theo van Gogh. Arles 26. Mai 1888. Sämtliche Briefe. Henschel-Verlag Berlin 1965. Deutsch von Eva Schumann. Band 4 (von 6) S. 44 f. Hier nach: Renate Siefert, 2012,
(Original franz.: "Je crois de plus en plus qu’il ne faut pas juger le bon Dieu sur ce monde ci car c’est une étude de lui qui est mal venue. [...] Ce monde ci est évidemment baclé à la hâte dans un de ces mauvais moments où l’auteur ne savait plus ce qu’il faisait, où il n’avait plus la tête à lui. [...] Il n’y a que les maîtres pour se tromper ainsi, voila peutêtre la meilleure consolation vu que dès lors on est en droit d’espérer voir prendre sa revanche par la même main creatrice." - vangoghletters.org http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let613/letter.html
Seit etwa 2001 von Harald Lesch in folgender Verkürzung popularisiert: „Man sollte Gott nicht nach dieser Welt beurteilen, die ist nur eine Studie, die nicht gelungen ist. Aber es muss ein Meister sein, der solche Schnitzer macht!“ - www.astronomie.de http://www.astronomie.de/bibliothek/interviews/professor-harald-lesch-2001/ und )
Anfang September 1889 in Saint-Rémy, zitiert nach Matthias Arnold: Vincent van Gogh: Biographie, München (Kindler-Verlag) 1993, ISBN 3-463-40205-X
Vincent Van Gogh: Zitate auf Englisch
Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, Autumn 1888; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 544), p. 37
1880s, 1888
“I see completely different things in the Bible than Pa sees”
1880s, 1881
Kontext: Whenever I tell Pa anything, it's all just idle talk to him, and certainly no less so to Ma, and I also find Pa and Ma’s sermons and ideas about God, people, morality, virtue, almost complete nonsense. I also read the Bible sometimes, just as I sometimes read Michelet or Balzac or Eliot, but I see completely different things in the Bible than Pa sees, and I can't agree at all with what Pa makes of it in his petty, academic way.
“Gauguin interests me very much as a man - very much.”
In a letter to Émile Bernard, from Arles, ca. 2 November 1888, http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/B19a.htm
1880s, 1888
Kontext: Gauguin interests me very much as a man - very much. For a long time now it has seemed to me that in our nasty profession of painting we are most sorely in need of men with the hands and the stomachs of workmen. More natural tastes - more loving and more charitable temperaments - than the decadent dandies of the Parisian boulevards have. Well, here we are without the slightest doubt in the presence of a virgin creature with savage instincts. With Gauguin blood and sex prevail over ambition.
In his letter to Theo, The Hague, 11 March 1883, http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/12/274.htm?qp=art.material,as translated by Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, edited by Robert Harrison, in The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh (1991)
1880s, 1883
Kontext: It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.
A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn’t think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it. Even though neither you nor I, in talking together, would come to any definite plans, etc., perhaps we might mutually strengthen that feeling that something is ripening within us. And that is what I should like.
In his letter to Theo, from Cuesmes, 24 September 1880 - original manuscript of letter no. 158 - at Van Gogh Museum, location Amsterdam - inv. no. b156 V/1962, http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let158/letter.html
Van Gogh's copies (drawings) he made after the work of Rousseau have been lost
1880s, 1880
Kontext: First and foremost, the masterly etching, 'The bush', by Daubigny/Ruisdael. [ Daubigny's etching 'The bush', he made after Jacob van Ruisdael ].... I plan to do two drawings, either in sepia or something else, one of them after this etching [by Daubigny] — the other [etching, made] after T. Rousseau's 'The oven in Les Landes'. This latter sepia is already done — it's true — but if you compare it with Daubigny's etching, you'll understand that it becomes weak, even though the sepia drawing considered on its own may very well have a certain tone and sentiment. I have to go back to it and work on it again.... I couldn't tell you how happy I feel to have taken up drawing again. It had already been on my mind for a long time, but I always saw the thing as impossible and beyond my reach.
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Kontext: People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
I do know that there is a release, the belated release. A justly or unjustly ruined reputation, poverty, disastrous circumstances, misfortune, they all turn you into a prisoner. You cannot always tell what keeps you confined, what immures you, what seems to bury you, and yet you can feel those elusive bars, railings, walls. Is all this illusion, imagination? I don't think so. And then one asks: My God! will it be for long, will it be for ever, will it be for eternity?
“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”
Vincent Van Gogh
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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Quelle: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Variante: There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Letter #158 to Theo (24 September 1880) http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let158/letter.html <!-- This letter has slightly different translations everywhere, but this seems to be the more often quoted translation -->
Variant translation http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/8/136.htm: "I felt my energy revive and I said to myself, I shall get over it somehow, I shall set to work again with my pencil, which I had cast aside in my deep dejection, and I shall draw again, and from that moment I have had the feeling that everything has changed for me"
1880s, 1880
Kontext: I felt my energy revive, and said to myself, In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. From that moment everything has seemed transformed for me.
“Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.”
Vincent Van Gogh
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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
1870s
Variante: Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
Quelle: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Quote in a letter to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, c. Saturday, 29 September 1888; as cited in An Examined Faith : Social Context and Religious Commitment (1991) by James Luther Adams and George K. Beach, p. 259
1880s, 1888
“The best way to know life is to love many things”
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Variante: I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Kontext: 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.
But I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakable faith.
