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| I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. | | Adventure | |
| I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does. | | Uncategorized | |
| I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone. | | Uncategorized | |
| I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. | | Uncategorized | |
| I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 am, which is my life, the power to create | | Uncategorized | |
| I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture. | | Art; Painting | |
| I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true. | | Uncategorized | |
| I certainly hope to sell in the course of time, but I think I shall be able to influence it most effectively by working steadily on, and that at the present moment making desperate efforts to force the work I am doing now upon the public would be pretty useless. | | Uncategorized | |
| I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter... | | Art; Painting | |
| I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time. the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty | | World | |
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| 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 | | Painting | |
| I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people | | Art; Love | |
| I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars. | | Religion | |
| I have drawn into myself so much that I literally do not see any other people anymore-- excepting the peasants with whom I have direct contact, since I paint them. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colors | | Uncategorized | |
| I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. | | Uncategorized | |
| I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. | | Art; Mind; Soul | |
| I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. | | Art | |
