“Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.”

“He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.”

“Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.”

“Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.”

“A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.”

“Normal people do not create art.”

“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most prolific writer created only one novel; throw away the individual bindings and the whole of each man's writing constituted one book: the true and complete portrait of himself. An artist had one thing to say, and one only; he might flail about, seek new techniques, forms, colour combinations, subjects, but intrinsically he would always paint the same canvas, write the same book.”