“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.”

—  Vincent Van Gogh

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Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853–1890

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