Quotes About Commitment

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

What is done in love is done well.

In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.

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 – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.

That is how I look at it; to continue, to continue, that is what is necessary.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

It quite often makes me feel sad that painting's like a bad mistress one might have, who's always spending, spending and it's never enough.. [Letter 630, Arles, 23 June 1888]

Se eu me relanço em cheio no trabalho, muito bem, mas continuo sempre louco.

Quanto a saber se é vendável ou invendável, este é um estribilho maçante, e não estou nem um pouco disposto a gastar minha energia nisto.

estou certo que a vontade de trabalhar me devorará e me tornará insensível a todo o resto, e de bom humor.

Que afinal o artista é um homem que trabalha, e definitivamente não é o primeiro pateta a aparecer que o vencerá.

Só me resta a escolha entre ser um bom pintor ou um mau pintor. Escolhi a primeira alternativa. Mas as necessidades da pintura são como as de uma amante ruinosa, não se consegue fazer nada sem dinheiro, e nunca se tem o suficiente.

Preferiria ganhar 150 francos por mês como pintor do que 1.500 francos por mês por outros meios, mesmo como negociante de quadros.

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!

People who do nothing but fall in love are perhaps more serious and saintly than those who sacrifice their love and their hearts to an idea.

I insist on this, the plan remains just as real and solid whether Gauguin comes or not, seeing that our object doesn't change - to deliver me and one of the comrades from this cancer that is gnawing at our work, this being forced to live in these ruinous inns without any profit to ourselves. It is pure madness.

The man of faith, of energy, of warmth… steps in and does something.

People who do nothing other than be in love are perhaps more serious and holier than those who sacrifice their love and their heart to an idea

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

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

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

You can't give your love over entirely when you are still in love with another.

Saber fer les coses que no es volen fer ajuda a fer bé les coses que es volen fer

It isn't love if it isn't everything.