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.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.