I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

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.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

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