Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

... life is too short to do the whole.