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

From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.

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

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.