I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.