‘My house here is painted outside in the yellow of fresh butter, with garish green shutters, and it’s in the full sun on the square […]. And the intense blue sky above. Inside, I can live and breathe, and think and paint,’ Van Gogh wrote to his sister Willemien in 1888.
Art – Vincent Van Gogh
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Art – “Interior of a Restaurant” by Vincent van Gogh (1887) Created in Asnières-sur-Seine, Paris.
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“The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.”
–Adam Smith (June 16, 1723 – July 17, 1790) author of The Wealth Of Nations
Art – Vincent van Gogh
“I don’t want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
Art by Vincent van Gogh.
“As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (…) You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.”
– Julio Cortázar
Art by Vincent Willem Van Gogh.
“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Art – Van Gogh, A Lane near Arles, 1888.
Veil = a piece of fine material worn by women to protect or conceal the face.
“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand — but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.” – from Zadie Smith‘s 10 Rules of Writing
Art by Vincent van Gogh.
