Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of sma... - Vincent Van Gogh

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."

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

"Only when I fall do I get up again."

"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"

"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."