As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
VINCENT VAN GOGHGreat things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
More Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
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Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
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I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
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If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
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If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
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How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
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I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
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If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends.
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
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Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
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