I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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

Art is spirituality in drag.

—Jennifer Yane

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

—Ludwig van Beethoven

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

—Isaac Bashevis Singer

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no immaculate conception in art.

—Walter Kuhn