Vincent van Gogh Quote

The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.


Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence (ed. 1959)


The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave...

The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave...

The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave...

The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave...