Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Religion will never show the way.

He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'

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.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.