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

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

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Art is to console those who are broken by life.

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Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

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

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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

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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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