“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“It is, after all, our imagination that makes us human. Vincent van Gogh asked, “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?””
To which the answer is, I would have thought, boring, bordering on pointless.
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