Vincent van Gogh — "Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. On…"

"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing."

"It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day."

"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 am not afraid of death, I am afraid of not living."

"There are two ways of looking at a thing: one way is to see it as an ugly, dull, miserable, uninteresting thing, another way is to see it as a beautiful, interesting, marvelous, and inspiring thing."