Vincent Van Gogh frasi celebri
Frasi sulla vita di Vincent Van Gogh
Sai tu ciò che fa sparire questa prigione? È un affetto profondo, serio. Essere amici, essere fratelli, amare spalanca la prigione per potere sovrano, per grazia potente. Ma chi non riesce ad avere questo rimane chiuso nella morte. Ma dove rinasce la simpatia, lì rinasce anche la vita.
Origine: Da Lettere a Theo, Guanda, Parma 1984, pp. 87-88.
Origine: Da una lettera al fratello Theo, 3 aprile 1878.
Origine: Da una lettera al fratello Theo, 30 maggio 1877.
Origine: Da una lettera al fratello Theo, 29 luglio 1888; citato in Serena Zoli, Giovanni B. Cassano, E liberaci dal male oscuro, TEA, Milano, 2009, p. 478. ISBN 978-88-502-0209-6
Vincent Van Gogh Frasi e Citazioni
“Aspiro alle stelle che non posso raggiungere.”
Lettere a Theo
“Non bisogna giudicare il buon Dio da questo mondo, perché è uno schizzo che gli è venuto male.”
Origine: Citato in Guido Almansi, Il filosofo portatile, TEA, Milano, 1991.
Origine: Da una lettera al fratello Theo, 7 settembre 1880; citato in Fischer 1975.
Origine: Da Lettere a Theo (L’ Aia, giugno 1883) - Guanda, 2016.
Origine: Da una lettera al fratello Theo; citato in Fischer 1975.
Vincent Van Gogh: Frasi in inglese
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.”
Variante: I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
Origine: Van Gogh's Starry Night Notebook
Quote from Vincent's letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, 30 May 1877; Dear Theo: the Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh;, ed. Irving Stone and Jean Stone (1995), p. 26
1870s
Contesto: When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
“Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”
Origine: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Origine: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Contesto: So please don't think that I am renouncing anything, I am reasonably faithful in my unfaithfulness and though I have changed, I am the same, and what preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way, how can I become more knowledgeable and study some subject or other in depth? That is what keeps preying on my mind, you see, and then one feels imprisoned by poverty, barred from taking part in this or that project and all sorts of necessities are out of one's reach. As a result one cannot rid oneself of melancholy, one feels emptiness where there might have been friendship and sublime and genuine affection, and one feels dreadful disappointment gnawing at one's spiritual energy, fate seems to stand in the way of affection or one feels a wave of disgust welling up inside. And then one says “How long, my God!”
“We are surrounded by poetry on all sides…”
Origine: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Origine: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Contesto: I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may.
But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.