Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

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

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

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