Vincent van Gogh

"The only real language is the language of feeling."

"Love is the most beautiful of all the truths."

"Keep your head and your heart always in full employment."

"I am always drawn to think about the far beyond."

"Blend old and new; balance is the art of living."

"Every master was once a beginner who never gave up."

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

"The beauty of things is not in the thing itself, but in the mind which contemplates it."

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

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity, an eccentric, or unpleasant person - nobody, in short. Yet I have something inside me, a fire, a soul."

"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'"

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

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength."

"I cannot let myself think that things are hopeless; they must and shall get better."

"Real artists strip bare their souls."

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it."

"The only way to create is to be authentic to yourself."

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"There is peace even in the storm."

"I would like to raise my life to a higher level, do more, learn more."

"It is my own 120 percent...in it is the most true thing I know."

"The paint is cleaner than the mouth."

"I often think that the best way to know God is to love many things."

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life. Make it count."

"I will always be poor. I want to remain poor because it keeps you sharp, you understand."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward some are strong at the broken places."

"I used to think I could save people with art. Now I realize that art saves my soul."

"Life itself is colorful, varied, exciting. I want my paintings to be the same."