Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

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.