Vincent van Gogh — "The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."

"I would sooner paint people's eyes than cathedrals, for there is something in the eyes that is lacking in a cathedral - however solemn and impressive it may be."

"I am looking for the impossible. That is why I am always searching for it."

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

"Believe me that sometimes I laugh heartily because people suspect me of all kinds of malignity and absurdity, of which not a hair of my head is guilty — I, who am really no one but a friend of nature,…"

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."