Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Disappointment

• 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

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Disappointment

• The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Effort, Victory, Gains

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

• I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drinking, Thinking, Paris

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

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