I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

— Vincent van Gogh

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

— Vincent van Gogh

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

— Vincent van Gogh

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

— Vincent van Gogh

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

— Vincent van Gogh

I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need.

— Vincent van Gogh

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

— Vincent van Gogh

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

— Vincent van Gogh

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made.

— Vincent van Gogh

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

— Vincent van Gogh