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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Men, Sea
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1171, Delphi Classics

In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.

Vincent Van Gogh
Inspiration, Heart, Views

What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.

Vincent Van Gogh
Eye, Heart, People
Letter to Theo, from The Hague, July 21, 1882.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Difficult, Turns
Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.14, Parkstone International

I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Wish, Ears

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Vincent Van Gogh
Strength, Meaningful, Heart
Letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, on May 30, 1877. "Dear Theo: the Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh" by Irving Stone and Jean Stone, p. 26, 1995.

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.

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]”

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Eye, Men
Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Thinking, Light

I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For 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. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Vincent Van Gogh
Wall, Believe, Heart

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

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
Heart, Wish, Difficult
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1026, Delphi Classics

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Fighting, Order
Letter to Theo van Gogh, May 30, 1877.

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Winter, Artist

What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Way, Bread
Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.126, Parkstone International

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