Vincent van Gogh — "I am not an artist, I am a worker."

"I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream."

"I'm not making a point of it, because the painting is one of the ugliest I've done. It's the equivalent, though different, of the potato eaters. I've tried to express the terrible human passions with …"

"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."

"I want to give the poor a voice through my art."

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