Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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.
- The best way to know God is to love many things.
- But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
- What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.