Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals.
Vincent Van GoghWhat lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
Vincent Van GoghThere is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder evenโthe French air clears up the brain and does goodโa world of good.
Vincent Van Gogh