Vincent van Gogh

I wish they would only take me as I am, or not at all.

I am not mad. I am an artist, and I am madly in love with my art.

I try to exaggerate the essential and leave the obvious vague.

It is by living that I want to paint.

I have been in the depths of despair, and I have found that there is no bottom.

I am not a man of words, but a man of deeds.

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

I want to paint the unpainted.

I want to paint the soul of man.

I am not a painter, I am a prophet.

I want to paint the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

I want to paint the light, the light, and nothing but the light.

I want to paint the color, the color, and nothing but the color.

I want to paint the life, the life, and nothing but the life.

I want to paint the beauty, the beauty, and nothing but the beauty.