Vincent van Gogh

Mauve takes offense at my having said, "I am an artist" - which I do not take back, because that word included, of course, the meaning: always seeking without absolutely finding.  As far as I know, that word means: "I am seeking, I am striving, I am in with all my heart."

I dream my painting and paint my dream.

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination; do not become the slave of your model.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.