Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes. - Vincent van Gogh
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh
How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone. - Vincent van Gogh
How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning. - Vincent van Gogh
I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought. - Vincent van Gogh
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning. - Vincent van Gogh
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. - Vincent van Gogh
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent van Gogh
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, scepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. - Vincent van Gogh
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
It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. - 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
Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has broken the spell of 'you can't' once and for all. - 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
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. - Vincent van Gogh
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