Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Van Gogh

"I am a man of passions, capable of doing foolish things, speak and act too quickly when it would have been better to wait patiently. This being the case, must I consider myself a dangerous man, incapable of doing anything? I do not think so. But the question is to try and put these self-same passions to good use."

"Mediocrity in its simplest signification I do not despise at all.
And one certainly does not rise above that mark by despising what is mediocre.
But what you say about hard work is entirely right."