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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them. - Author object (582)

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. - Author object (539)

Better to be strong than pretty and useless. - Author object (384)

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. - Author object (191)

I dream my painting and I paint my dream. - Author object (191)

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. - Author object (191)

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. - Author object (191)

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. - Author object (191)

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. - Author object (191)

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. - Author object (191)

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process. - Author object (191)

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. - Author object (191)

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. - Author object (191)

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful. - Author object (191)

What am I 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, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum. - Author object (191)

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Author object (191)

At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky. - Author object (191)

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. - Author object (191)

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Author object (191)

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove. - Author object (191)