There's no love without pain.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

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

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Religion will never show the way.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]