Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• 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 ...”

• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Looks, May

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.126, Parkstone International

• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Ideas, Goal

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.webexhibits.org. July 1880.

• If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Distance

• Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistress, Study, Painting

  James Smith, Vincent van Gogh (2001). “Essential Van Gogh”, Parragon Incorporated

• But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Trying, Woe, Study

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

• One can never study nature too much and too hard

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Nature, Too Much, Study

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

• If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Intelligent

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

• That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Way, Study, Academic

• If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Study, Possibility

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

• I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Order, Color

• We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Judging, World, Study

• When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Feelings, Typical

  Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”

• Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Morality, Study, Social

  Vincent Van Gogh (2013). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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