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" I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. "
Vincent Van Gogh
See
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" If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? "
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" One must work and dare if one really wants to live. "
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" Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. "
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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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" How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? "
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