Vincent van Gogh — "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

"I wish they would take me for what I am."

"The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts ... it astonishes me that they have not yet been done as I see them."

"I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture."

"The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant colour, well arranged, resplendent."

"And the painter of the future will be a colorist such as has not yet been seen."