Vincent van Gogh — "I want to paint what I feel, not what I see."

"I mercilessly destroyed an important canvas—a Christ with the angel in Gethsemane—as well as…"

"Take our sister Wil, she has neither drunk nor led a wild life, and yet we know a photograph of her in which she has the look of a madwoman."

"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me."

"Such a person doesn't always know himself what he could do, but he feels by instinct, I'm good for something, even so! I feel I have a raison d'être! I know that I could be a quite different man! For …"

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