I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.

Who a person becomes later in life, how he lives, how he dies, cloud’s people’s memories of him, spinning and skewing-distorting-their portraits of him as a child. But we will draw Vincent as clearly as we can using not only impressions but also strong lines, sharp details. A picture will emerge.

My heart has often been too full to speak.′ -Emma to husband Charles on her gratitude for ’the cheerful and affectionate looks you have given me when I know you have been miserably uncomfortable.

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.′ -Emma to Charles.

I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God bless you, my dear, you are too good for me.′ -Charles to Emma, 1859.

I have ceased to think even of barnacles!′ -Charles Darwin.

More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.′ -Mrs. Huxley about Emma.

Uncle Cor once had asked Vincent if he would feel anything for a woman or a girl who was beautiful, 'but I said I would have more feeling for and would prefer to be involved with one who was ugly or old or impoverished or in some way unhappy, who has acquired understanding and a soul through experience of life and trial and error, or sorrow.'-Vincent Van Gogh

I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.

More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma