I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

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

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Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.

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I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.

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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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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

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

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If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

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

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