But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.