If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour a…

Vincent Van Gogh
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If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.
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