Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Faith, Art, Public Opinion

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, And Love, Needs

• The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Years, Drawing, Done

• It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Ideas, Trying

  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.15, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

• Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Perseverance, Giving, Public Opinion

• But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Art, Years

• To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Drawing, Sticks

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