"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"
- Vincent van Gogh
"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
"I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream."
"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
"To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life"
"And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them."
"My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal ..."
"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning."
"Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their ..."
"Where friendship blooms, life is reborn."