Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
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.
Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
