Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

I see that I must give what I most need.

If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace.

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?

I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.