"The way to know life is to love many things."

"I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture."

"I feel a need for, shall I say the word - for religion - so I go outside at night to paint the stars."

"At present this horror of life is already less pronounced, and the melancholy less acute. But I still have no will, and hardly any desires, or none at all that are to do with ordinary life."

"The sadness will last forever."