Vincent van Gogh

"What am I in the eyes of most people -- a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person -- somebody who has no position in society and will never have one."

"I believe that I can store energy in my body by eating, and I can restore my creative power by the right food."

"The more I think about it, the more I realize that there is nothing more artistic than to love another person."

"People who live pleasantly, make beautiful things. The more cheerful and happy a man is, the more beautiful his work becomes."

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

"For great things do not just happen by impulse, but are accumulated little by little."

"The way to know life is to love many things."

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

"I want to touch people with my art, to make them feel something real."

"The beauty of a flower fades, but the beauty of truth is eternal."

"I often pace the streets without knowing where I am going, as if impelled by an invisible force."

"In my life, I have often felt lonely, but I have learned that loneliness is not isolation; it is connection."

"Patience is not merely the ability to wait, but the attitude we adopt while waiting."

"The sadness will last forever, and that is the beauty of it."

"I often think that scribbling and scrawling is the best school of all."

"Color is a power which directly influences the soul."

"Let me go on living foolishly with my passions, for I am convinced it is better to create than to be created."

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

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

"In a world where there is so much chaos, there is still room for truth."

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

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become absolutely free."

"Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep true thing."

"Fear is the prison that builds itself."

"I have to work with what stirs my soul, what makes my heart beat faster."

"An artist's life is like a seed, planted in hard soil, but determined to grow."

"I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way."

"The more I develop my artistic sense, the more I see that it is not so much about technique."

"One cannot always be alone, one must sometimes talk and share one's innermost thoughts."