The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

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Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.

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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

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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.

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I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.

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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

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