How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Vincent Van GoghRead
Great things do not just happen by impulse, _x000D_ but as a succession of small things linked together.
Interpretation
Great achievements are the result of deliberate actions rather than spontaneous events.
Vincent Van Gogh highlights the importance of patience and consistent effort in achieving great things. He emphasizes that significant accomplishments are not the result of random impulses but rather the cumulative effect of small, purposeful actions that are interconnected, reminding us that success requires diligence and a strategic approach rather than mere spontaneity.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire young artists.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.
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 β not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.
To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.
It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.
I call architecture frozen music.
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
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