The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.

There is peace even in the storm

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

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

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.