Vincent van Gogh

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I wish they would take me as I am.

I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize, and which we seek to convey by the actual radiance and vibration of our colouring.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

I wish I could live to see the day when there would be a fellowship of artists, a brotherhood, a society of painters.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Don't lose heart, but take courage, and look forward to better times.

I want to do drawings that touch people, that move people to tears.