It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. - Vincent van Gogh
It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing. - Vincent van Gogh
It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful. - Vincent van Gogh
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. - Vincent van Gogh
One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result. - Vincent van Gogh
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world. - Vincent van Gogh
The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right. - Vincent van Gogh
The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour. - Vincent van Gogh
The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner. - Vincent van Gogh
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. - Vincent van Gogh
To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace. - Vincent van Gogh
Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite sides respectively.
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