Vincent van Gogh — "Next, I'm attempting to do dusty thistles with a great swarm of butterflies swir…"

"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."

"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."

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

"I hardly have a head for writing, but I feel a great emptiness in no longer being at all up to date with what Gauguin, you and others are doing. But I really must have patience...."

"I often think about the future, about how things will be when I am gone."