Vincent van Gogh — "I want to paint humanity, humanity and nothing else."

"I have a terrible need for — dare I say the word — for religion. So I go outside at night to paint the stars, and I always dream a painting like that."

"For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly."

"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."

"Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that’s the real way to learn to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see."

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