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.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

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

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.