Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Difficulty

Quotes about: Difficulty

• 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.

• Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, True Love, Art

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2259, Delphi Classics

• It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Disappointment, Thinking, Drawing

  Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

• 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

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

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Work, Difficulty, Plans

• 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]”

• Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dark, White, Half

• Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Powerful, Mean

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

• For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Kindness, Loneliness, Worry

  Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Editorial Biblos

• 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.

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