Jeden muž a tolik skvělých slov

Omlouvám se, ale v Čj jsem našla od něj jen citáty o lásce a ty mi tak zajímavý nepřišly, ale tyhle o životě, díle, umění... trochu mě znepokojuje, že se v nich tolik vidím, protože autor byl blázen :D Zároveň ale veliký umělec. Některé výroky jsou známé, takže schválně, jestli poznáte, o koho jde :P První, červený citát je ten, který jsem od něj četla jako první ve Francii a zaujal mě. Opravdu doporučuju si to přečíst. Normálně se v citátech moc nevyžívám a málokterý se mi líbí, většinou mi přijdou hrozně prázdný a omšelý, ale tohle je NĚCO :)

Když si s překladem nebudete vůbec vědět rady, tak vám pomůžu (pokusím se).

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."

"How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"

"I wish they would only take me as I am."

“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 were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”

“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”

“I'm such a nobody.”

 “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.”

“We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words”

“It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.”

“I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.”

“If you don’t have a dog--at least one--there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”