A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

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

Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

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.