Vincent van Gogh — "I mercilessly destroyed an important canvas—a Christ with the angel in Gethseman…"

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

"I wish they'd simply accept me as I am."

"I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture."

"If something in you yourself says 'you aren't a painter' — IT'S THEN THAT YOU SHOULD PAINT, old chap, and that voice will be silenced too, but precisely because of that."

"I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something."