"Your profession is not your job. Your profession is what you're put on this earth to do with such passion and intensity it becomes spiritual in calling."
Vincent Van Gogh
"Conscience is a man's compass."
"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."
"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."
"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
