If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

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

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

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

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

How difficult it is to be simple.