Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.

Trust opens the door that pain had sealed shut.

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

School's out forever, school's been blown to pieces.

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing.

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.