Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.