Vincent Van Gogh

"It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide."

"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically."

"And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them."

"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."

"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."

"What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do."