“But what I wanted to say is this: after the period of melancholy is over you will be stronger than before, you will recover your health, and you will find the scenery round you so beautiful that you will want nothing but paint.”Tagged: Motivational, Art and Beauty
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”Tagged: Small Things, Small Steps, Encouragement, Wise Words
“In fact, I have no real friend but you, and when I am in low spirits, I always think of you. I only wish you were here, that we might again talk together about moving to the country.”Tagged: Friendship, Friends, real friend, missing a friend, friends apart
“I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”Tagged: Self-Absorbed, self-centered
“Memories of you are sometimes almost overpowering.”Tagged: Memories, Remembering someone, Missing Someone, Past
“All kinds of eccentric and bad things are thought and said about me, which makes me feel somewhat forlorn now and then, but on the other hand it concentrates my attention on the things that never change — that is to say, the eternal beauty of nature.”Tagged: The Eternal, Focus On The Core That Never Changes
“Most of those who have become something very good have gone through a long, difficult period of preparation that was the rock upon which their house was founded.”Tagged: The Obstacle Is The Way, It Takes Time, Quote of the Moment, Hard Work
“The difference between happiness and unhappiness, both are necessary and useful. Even in the face of an illness that’s unsettling or worrying, this belief is absolutely unshaken.”Tagged: Part and Parcel, Yin And Yang, Pain And Happiness
“To suffer without complaining is the only lesson that has to be learned in this life.”Tagged: Life Lessons, Life
“I imagine that in the end art for art’s sake—working for the sake of working—energy for energy’s sake—really becomes very important to all the good fellows.”Tagged: Art for Art’s Sake, What Makes A Good Life, Working
“In my view we all have moments of melancholy, of stress, of anguish, to a greater or lesser extent, and this is a condition of every self-conscious human life.”Tagged: Life Is Full of Pain, It's Okay To Suffer
“When one is always in respectable company and among reasonably well-to-do citizens, one may perhaps not notice it so much—but when, like me, one has been through very hard times, then it’s impossible to ignore the fact that great hardship is a factor that weighs in the balance.”Tagged: Hard Times, poor, Seeing The Pain of the World
“Love that friend, that person, that thing, whatever you like, you'll be on the right path to knowing more thoroughly, afterwards; that's what I say to myself. But you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly,…”Tagged: Love, Loving Others, How To Love
“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."”Tagged: Inspirational, Being Unique, Being Yourself, Pave Your Own Way
“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 we were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an…”Tagged: eccentric, Person, entity, Identity, Work