Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Vincent Van Gogh

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• What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Wall
  • Invisible