Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Practice, Drawing

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

• 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

• 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.

• I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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