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Vincent Van Gogh quotes about work

Dutch Artist March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890

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If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward. Vincent Van Gogh
Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work. Vincent Van Gogh
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor... Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and..."
The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner. Vincent Van Gogh
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
One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result. Vincent Van Gogh
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. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation... Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work..."
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
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind..."
I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process. Vincent Van Gogh
Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days. Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "One must work and dare if one really wants to live."
One must work and dare if one really wants to live. Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in..."
I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields. Vincent Van Gogh

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