"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

Courage

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When Vincent van Gogh speaks about courage, it invites us to pause and reflect on our own journey. How often do we consider the subtle impacts of courage in our daily lives? This thought-provoking perspective challenges conventional wisdom and encourages a deeper understanding of ourselves.

About Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at age 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.

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"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."

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"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others."

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"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

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"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."

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"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."

— Theodore Roosevelt
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"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony."

— Jack Kevorkian
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"The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour."

— Laura Dern
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"Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented."

— Lech Walesa
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