Vincent van Gogh — "I want to live in a world where there are no problems."

"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…"

"There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."

"It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either."

"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars."