It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, the...
La tristesse durera toujours.]
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?
I thought I would be understood without words.