... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting..

What we know of others is our personal secret..

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing..

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh].

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning..

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion..

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning..

Religion will never show the way..

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors..

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and suffer….

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it..

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself..

You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out th….

From out of pain, beauty..

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him..