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A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go

A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

Vincent Van Gogh
Thinking, Littles, Great Men
Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

Vincent Van Gogh
Real, Taken, Mind
"The Path of Least Resistance: Principles for Creating What You Want to Create". Book by Robert Fritz, p. 181, 1984.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Vincent Van Gogh
Mistake, Fall, Knowledge
Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”

Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving up your opinion at the bidding of such and such a person.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Giving Up, Mean

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

Vincent Van Gogh
Feelings, Painting, Intimacy

I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

Vincent Van Gogh
Work, Sunshine, Cicadas
Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.27, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

Vincent Van Gogh
Beautiful, Color, Law
"The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin".

You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.

Vincent Van Gogh
Brother, Powerful, Spring

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

Vincent Van Gogh
Beautiful, Mysterious, Excitement
Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.130, Parkstone International

There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.

Vincent Van Gogh
Judging, Easy, Affinity
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1522, Delphi Classics

What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How can one get through that wall? - since hammering on it doesn't help at all. In my view, one must undermine the wall and grind through it slowly and patiently.

Vincent Van Gogh
Wall, Iron, Drawing

And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Comforting, Want
"The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin".

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

Vincent Van Gogh
Mean, Voice, Silence

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

Vincent Van Gogh
Truth, Hell, Truthfulness
Bernard Zurcher, Vincent van Gogh (1995). “Vincent Van Gogh: art, life, and letters”, Thunder Bay Pr

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
Flower, Ivy, Greenery
Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.73, Parkstone International

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

Vincent Van Gogh
Ideas, Painting, Abundance

To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

Vincent Van Gogh
Stars, Sunset, Reality
Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Would Be, Opinion
Vincent van Gogh (1988). “Van Gogh: A Retrospective”, Park Lane Enterprises

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Firsts, Painting
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

Vincent Van Gogh
Fighting, Men, One Day

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Color, Promise
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2871, Delphi Classics

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Sky, Lamps

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist, Ideas, Trying
Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.15, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Artist, Order
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1428, Delphi Classics

There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Vincent Van Gogh
Regret, Tired, Thinking

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