Vincent van Gogh — "I want to give the poor a voice through my art."

"To the best of my knowledge, those words mean 'I seek, I pursue, my heart is in it.'"

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

"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."

"I want to do figures, figures and more figures, it's stronger than me, this series of bipeds from the baby to Socrates and from the black-haired woman with white skin to the woman with yellow hair and…"

"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempte…"