"Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]"
"Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]"
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Source: Irving Stone (1965). “The Great Adventure of Michelangelo: An Abridged Illustrated Edition of The Agony and the Ecstasy”
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