It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.

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

How difficult it is to be simple.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

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

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