In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

—Vincent Van Gogh

More quotations from Vincent Van Gogh

Winning isn't everything.. It's the only thing.

—Vincent Van Gogh

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

—Vincent Van Gogh

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill—it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

—Vincent Van Gogh

When I have a terrible need of—shall I say the word—religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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