Vincent van Gogh

I am an artist, and I am a human being.

I am not afraid of death, I am afraid of not living.

I want to paint the impossible.

I am a peasant, and I paint peasants.

I am more and more convinced that one must not judge God by this world.

I want to be a man of action.

I am a seeker, I am a wanderer, I am a dreamer.

I want to paint what I feel, not what I see.

I want to give the poor a voice through my art.

I am a tool in the hands of nature.

I want to be able to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colours.

I am not an artist, I am a worker.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

What is done in love is done well.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

The sadness will last forever.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

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

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.