“I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..”— Vincent van Gogh Related Quotes “All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”– Honore de Balzac “What should be boundless is one’s love of life, not one’s love of art or knowledge.”— Marty Rubin “Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently do: the infinite variety of nature.”— Martin Gayford