"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."
-Vincent Van Gogh
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"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.“
-Vincent Van Gogh
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"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."
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"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 done well."
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"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
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"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
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"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create."
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
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