Quotes About Persistence

Atualmente estou descontente comigo e descontente com o que faço, mas entrevejo a possibilidade de fazer melhor na sequência.

O que eu quero dizer e o que eu aspiro é tremendamente difícil, e no entanto não acredito estar aspirando alto demais.

One must never trust the occasion when one is without difficulties.

Enfim, é preciso que eu tente levar as coisas um pouco mais passivamente e ter paciência

In any case, whether people approve or do not approve of what I do and how I do it, I for my part know no other way than to wrestle so long with nature that she tells me her secret.

Enfim, seja como for, eu quero ir adiante a qualquer custo, quero ser eu mesmo.

É que sinto em mim a obstinação e estou acima do que as pessoas possam dizer de mim e de minha obra

Se algo em seu íntimo lhe disser "você não é pintor", é então que você deve pintar, meu velho, e também esta voz se calará, mas somente desta maneira;

Pero tengo que atenerme al camino que he elegido. Si no hago nada, si no estudio ni busco, estoy perdido. Y entonces, ¡pobre de mí!

exchanging pictures with other artists. In one word, with much energy, with a sincere personal feeling of colour in nature I would say an artist can get on here notwithstanding the many obstructions. And I intend remaining here still longer.

one must never let the fire in one's soul die, for the time will inevitably come when it will be needed.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

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

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

If you have writer's block, dig into it. You are resisting something. Something is getting in the way of your creative work. Resistance always means something.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air—there's the rub, the task.

fighting one fear after another.

Problems is not the problems it's just the way of success!