Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing. - Alexander Graham Bell
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. - Vincent van Gogh
I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it. - Vincent van Gogh
If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may. - Vincent van Gogh
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, scepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. - Vincent van Gogh
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. - Vincent van Gogh
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire. - Vincent van Gogh
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter. - Vincent van Gogh
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. - Vincent van Gogh
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. - Vincent van Gogh
There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it with great deal of drawing and not much colour, how not to do it with a great deal of colour and not much drawing. - Vincent van Gogh
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. - Vincent van Gogh
We spent our whole lives in unconscious exercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words. - Vincent van Gogh
Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.
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