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.

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

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

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

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

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.