Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life in France, where he died.
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination, do not become the slave of your model.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.