All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

Normal people do not create art.

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

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

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.