When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.
Art destroys the life.
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
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.
The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
Man’s spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food...
Life’s not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
There’s no love without pain.
Normal people do not create art.
How difficult it is to be simple.
Fortune is beastly – it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn’t I would never write anything else.
Morality is similar to religion – it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
Religion will never show the way.