I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

—Vincent Van Gogh

Winning isn't everything.. It's the only thing.

—Vincent Van Gogh

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

—Vincent Van Gogh

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill—it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

—Vincent Van Gogh

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

—Vincent Van Gogh

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

—Paul Cezanne

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

—Plutarch

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

—Robert Delaunay

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

—Pierre Bonnard

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

—Pablo Picasso