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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What is done in love is done well.

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Art is to console those who are broken by life.

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Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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

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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

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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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