"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
- Vincent van Gogh
"Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together."
"It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours but the art of words exists too and will never be less important."
"There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good."