„I am sure you will like it, it is such a fine business [art-dealer]…. I am so glad that we shall both be in the same profession [art dealing] and in the same firm“

— Vincent Van Gogh

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„My dear Theo, Feeling, even a fine feeling, for the beauties of nature isn't the same as religious feeling, although I believe that the two are closely connected. The same is true of a feeling for art. Don't give in to that too much either. Hold fast especially to your love for the firm [of the Paris' art dealers Goupil & C0, where both brothers worked - Vincent started in 1869 and Theo in 1873] and for your work.... Nearly everyone has a feeling for nature, some more than others, but there are few who feel that God is a spirit, and that they must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Pa is one of the few, Ma too, and also Uncle Vincent, I believe.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.“
— Marcel Duchamp
„Thou art I, I am Thou,Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!“
— Paramahansa Yogananda
„My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?.. my art gives meaning to my life.“
— Edvard Munch