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If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No.

If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.

Vincent Van Gogh
Wise, Art, Distance

Drawing is the root of everything.

Vincent Van Gogh
Roots, Drawing
Vincent van Gogh, Colta Feller Ives (2005). “Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings”, p.3, Metropolitan Museum of Art

No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.

Vincent Van Gogh
Winning, Love Is, One Love
Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, 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
Woe Is Me, Looks, May
Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.126, Parkstone International

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.

Vincent Van Gogh
Time, Understanding, Masters
Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

Vincent Van Gogh
Glasses, Storm, Too Much
Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist, Drawing, Sketching
Vincent van Gogh, Dorothee Hansen, Lawrence W. Nichols, Judy Sund, Kunsthalle Bremen (2003). “Van Gogh: fields”

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

Vincent Van Gogh
Mean, Risk, Pearls
1888 From a letter to his brother Theo, early Oct.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

Vincent Van Gogh
Beautiful

I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.

Vincent Van Gogh
Beautiful, Perseverance, Disappointment

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Helping, Whole Life

Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Men, Hands

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
Coffee, Drink, Good Work

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent Van Gogh
Nature, Stars, Ignorance
Letter to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, September 29, 1888. "An Examined Faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment" by James Luther Adams and George K. Beach, p. 259, 1991.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

Vincent Van Gogh
Education, Paint, Glad

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
Wall, Greatness, Steel

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Vincent Van Gogh
Time, Giving, Long

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Artist, Fire
Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

Vincent Van Gogh
Inspirational, Thinking
Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

Vincent Van Gogh
Drawing, Humanity, Able
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 ...”

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Vincent Van Gogh
Want, Succeed, Helping
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1148, Delphi Classics

I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

Vincent Van Gogh
Gratitude, Years, Debt

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

Vincent Van Gogh
Music, Drawing, Mind
Letter to Theo from The Hague, July 21, 1882.

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


Vincent Van Gogh
Love, Sympathy, Wedding Anniversary
Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

Vincent Van Gogh
Flower, Garden, Flowers Growing
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.112, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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