“To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.”

“Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.”

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ”

“He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.”

“As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off.”

“Vincent did not know how to express his feelings in words. He knew how to paint them.However, one cannot paint the farewell.”