The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

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

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.