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I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

Vincent Van Gogh
Thinking, Drawing, Sketching
Vincent van Gogh, Vincent W. van Gogh (1970). “Vincent Van Gogh: Paintings and Drawings : Exhibition”

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

Vincent Van Gogh
Baby, Morning, Ocean
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 ...”

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

Vincent Van Gogh
Work, Difficulty, Plans

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Strong, Knowing

One of the reasons why I have no regular job, and why I have not had a regular job for years, is quite simply that my ideas differ from those of the gentlemen who hand out the jobs to individuals who think as they do. It is not just a question of my appearance, which is what they have sanctimoniously reproached me with. It goes deeper, I do assure you.

Vincent Van Gogh
Jobs, Thinking, Hands
Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.129, Parkstone International

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

Vincent Van Gogh
Music, Art, Calm
Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.

Vincent Van Gogh
Cypresses, Obsession, My Thoughts
Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.380, Parkstone International

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh
Inspirational, Dream, Art
"Fictional character: Vincent Van Gogh". "Loving Vincent", www.imdb.com. 2017.

It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

Vincent Van Gogh
Suicide, Gay, Gay Life
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.58, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

Vincent Van Gogh
Regret, Grief, Trouble
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2332, Delphi Classics

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Fighting, Inner Strength
Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the

Vincent Van Gogh
And Love, Carrying On, Succeed

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Vincent Van Gogh
Memories, Wheat Fields, Speak

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Vincent Van Gogh
Aries, Selfless Service, Self Discovery
Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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
Lonely, Art, Remember
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics

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
Beautiful, Thinking, People

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

Vincent Van Gogh
Soul, Portraits, Machines

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

Vincent Van Gogh
Gone, Half, Reason

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

Vincent Van Gogh
Disappointment, Wind, Encounters
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.49, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

Vincent Van Gogh
Trying, Woe, Study
Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Vincent Van Gogh
Together, Done, Impulse

I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

Vincent Van Gogh
Sadness, Drawing, People
Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

I wish they would take me as I am.

Vincent Van Gogh
Wish, Take Me As I Am, Take Me

I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

Vincent Van Gogh
Anxiety, Feelings, Matter
Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.30, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

Vincent Van Gogh
Color, Painter

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