"I hardly have a head for writing, but I feel a great emptiness in no longer being at all up to date with what Gauguin, you and others are doing. But I really must have patience...."

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

"For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly."

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

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — ass…"