Vincent van Gogh

"What is done in love is done well."

"It is not on the canvas that I paint, but in my head."

"The role of color as a power in itself."

"I want to paint humanity, or rather all of humanity."

"Sincerely yours, the only truly great person in the world."

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."

"The more I think about it, the more I realize that there is nothing which has been a greater source of earthly happiness than friendship."

"There is a sun within me."

"Energy is eternal delight."

"The sadness will last forever."

"To think that life could be so much brighter if one only had a sympathetic friend to whom to confide one's thoughts."

"I felt my heart break to pieces."

"We are always echoing the lives of the saints."

"Do not go gentle into that good night."

"Love many things, for therein lies true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much."

"Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed."

"I always watch the stars. Isn't it fine?"

"The more I think about it, the more I realize how marvelous it is to be alive."

"To be happy, one must have refined taste and a capacity for suffering."

"I often feel I am worth nothing at all."

"Just attack the canvas as if you were fighting it."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"I dream of a day when I'll be able to understand people."

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

"A man's life is never complete except through the eyes of woman."

"I have nothing to say and plenty of time to say it."

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

"The purpose of my life is to console people through my art."

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

"Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."