Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

—Vincent Van Gogh

Winning isn't everything.. It's the only thing.

—Vincent Van Gogh

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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.

—Vincent Van Gogh

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

—Vincent Van Gogh

You get down to work when the fear of having done nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing it wrong.

—Alain de Botton

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

—Harry S. Truman

If you don't try at anything, you can't fail. It takes back bone to lead the life you want.

—Richard Yates in Revolutionary Road

Humans—despite their artistic pretensions, their sophistication, and their many accomplishments—owe their existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

—Unknown

Humans—despite their artistic pretensions, their sophistication, and their many accomplishments—owe their existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

—Unknown