Vincent van Gogh

"I want to be of use in the world. That is all that matters to me."

"The struggles we endure build our character and sharpen our vision."

"I see my way as springing out of my circumstances. It is unavoidable."

"What a miserable thing it is to feel that one's contribution to the world is minimal."

"Sadness will last forever. Unless I paint it."

"I dream of something that might be real but probably won't be."

"To love many things is to possess a kind of power."

"Nature is my religion. The spiritual world is found in beauty."

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

"The fight is with an invisible enemy. I cannot see what holds me back from success."

"There is a harmony that can only be found through accepting all of life's contradictions."

"I want my work to reach into people's hearts and move them."

"The most important thing is to establish a rhythm in your creative life."

"I cannot change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the day will come when people will recognize their worth."

"What living is there in a life where you do not strive?"

"My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing as my successes."

"I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by red and green."

"The only true voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing with new eyes."

"One should be able to see the whole of the world in a single wheat field."

"Let me go quietly. I have loved much. I have suffered much. I have lived much."

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, because it teaches me."

"The objects of our affection are often the hardest to understand."

"I feel myself reaching toward something I will never fully grasp. That's the beauty of it."

"There is always something to draw."

"To think that there are people who transform the world and those who simply exist in it."

"I chose the most difficult life, and for that reason I am more myself than others."

"The emotions I pour into my work are the only immortality I will achieve."

"I am no friend to prettiness; I love what is true and alive, even if it is ugly."

"Sometimes I dream of a future where I am useful and create something significant. But I do it anyway."

"The world will judge my work, but I know what I have put into it."