Quotes About Struggle

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

According to Theo, he is definitely making a name for himself. But we are under no illusions, and are only too grateful that he is having some slight success. You don't know what a hard life he has had, and who can say what is still in store for him. His disappointments have often made him fell bitter and have turned him into an unusual person.

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!

Trade is slow here. The great dealers sell Millet, Delacroix, Corot, Daubigny, Dupré, a few other masters at exorbitant prices. They do little or nothing for young artists. The second class dealers contrariwise sell those at very low prices.

There was a time when I loved Vincent a lot and he was my best friend but that is over now. It seems to be even worse from his side, for he never loses an opportunity to show me that he despises me and that I revolt him. That makes the situation at home almost unbearable.

I know there are persons who think I ought to resign myself, and that it is against the rules not to consider myself beaten; but if they say of my proposal this summer, "If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before night," then you know the verse, He lost his feather in a fight But knew they'd grow again all right, Far finer than before

one is always in respectable company among rather well-to-do bourgeois, one does not notice this so much perhaps, but if one has dined for years on la vache enragée, as I have, one cannot deny that great misery is a fact that weights the scale.

Goodbye, write again between times if you can. As to the money, do what you can, but remember that we must try our utmost to succeed. And I won't let that idea of painting portraits go, for it is a good thing to fight for, to show people that there is more in them than the photographer can possibly get out of them with his machine.

I must tell you that even while working I think continually about the plan of setting up a studio in which you and I will be permanent residents, but which both of us want to turn into a shelter and refuge for friends, against the times when they find that the struggle is getting too much for them.

Fortunately for me, I do not hanker after victory any more, and all that I seek in painting is a way to make life bearable.

Iar, dac? m-aÈ™ hot?rî s? m? las în voia pornirilor mele, nimic nu mi-ar fi mai uÈ™or decât s? m? uit cu dispreÈ› la tot ce-am f?cut È™i s?-mi calc tablourile în picioare, aÈ™a cum face père Cézanne.

But in the course of four months 250 fr. must be deducted for the payment of colours and rent; well, then my work is hampered and obstructed to such an extent that I am at my wit's end, and I prefer to tell the fellows: Sell the whole lot! But let me work!

Victor Hugo says God is an eclipsing lighthouse, and certainly now we are passing through that eclipse. I only wish that someone could prove to us something calming which comforted us, so that we stopped feeling guilty or unhappy and that we could go forward without losing ourselves in the solitude or nothingness, and without having to fear every step, or to nervously calculate the harm we may unintentionally be doing to others.

Am vrut sa arat ca a muri... este un act la fel de simplu ca si caderea unei frunze... cateva maini de pamant intoarse si o cruce mica de lemn.

Não te oculto que teria preferido morrer a causar e a sofrer tantos dissabores. Mas que queres? Sofrer sem se queixar é a única lição que tratamos de aprender na vida.

But since then I've had no chance of getting models, though on the other hand I did have the chance to study the colour question. And if I should find models again for my figures later, then I would hope to be able to show that I am after something other than little green landscapes or flowers.

Did I tell you that I had sent the drawings to friend Russell? At the moment I am doing practically the same ones again for you, there will be twelve likewise. You will then see better what there is in the painted studies in the way of drawing. I have already told you that I always have to fight against the mistral, which makes it absolutely impossible to be master of your stroke. That accounts for the "haggard" look of the studies.

On commence par tuer, on finit par guerir," [One begins by killing, one ends by healing] is a doctor's saying. One starts with a hopeless struggle to follow nature, and everything goes wrong; one ends by calmly creating from one's palette, and nature agrees with it, and follows.

The rest certainly must seem damn bad." And the days when I bring home a study I say to myself - If it was like this every day, we might be able to get on; but the days when you come back empty-handed, and eat and sleep and spend money all the same, you don't think much of yourself, and you feel like a fool and a shirker and a good-for-nothing.

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.

Ben bunlar?n hiçbirini bilmem ama ruhunda kendini yenileyebilecek kadar enerjisi olan insana sayg? göstermesini bilirim. Tanr?m yaÅŸad???m?z çaÄŸ bir tembeller, ayaklar ça??d?r diye yak?namay?z, madem cennete pek inanamad?klar? halde bu çeÅŸit bir hayat süren bu tip inanlar ya??yor dünyam?zda.1

Asl?nda zorluklar?n üstünde fazla düÅŸünmüyorum, çünkü bunlar üstünde gereÄŸinden fazla durdun mu sersemliyorsun ya da iyice bozuluyorsun.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life - the power to create. And if, defrauded of the power to create physically, a man tries to create thoughts in place of children, he is still very much part of humanity.

How much sadness there is in life. Still, it won't do to become depressed, one should turn to other things, and the right thing is work, but there are times when one can only find peace of mind in the realization: I, too, shall not be spared by unhappiness"_Page.241