„I’d like you [Theo] to spend some time here, you’d feel it — after some time your vision changes, you see with a more Japanese eye, you feel colour differently. I’m also convinced that it’s precisely through a long stay here that I’ll bring out my personality. The Japanese [like a. o. Hokusai, admired by Vincent] draws quickly, very quickly, like a flash of lightning, because his nerves are finer, his feeling simpler. I’ve been here [Arles] only a few months but — tell me, in Paris would I have drawn in an hour the drawing of the boats?… Now this [sketch] was done without measuring, letting the pen go. So I tell myself that gradually the expenses will be balanced by work.“

— Vincent Van Gogh

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„This art that we are all working in, we feel it has a long future before it, and one must have some settled base, like steady people, and not like decadents. Here my life will become more and more like a Japanese painter's, living close to nature like a petty tradesman.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„I made a metamorphose, I'm a new person today, because I used to strongly and honestly, honestly! I feel like I can represent my generation so much because I honestly did not care whether I lived or died. But now I can not die, with people thinking I'm a rapist or a criminal, I can not leave until this shit is straight, you know I'm not suicidal. I can't go until ya'll really know what time it is. And then after that, BOOM!, It's all over and we can see how this shit fall, but that's how it is, and the reason being is because if I can't live free, if I can't live with the same respect as the next man, I don't wanna be here, because god has cursed me to see what life should be like, If God wanted me to be this person and be happy here, he wouldn't let me feel so oppressed, he wouldn't let me feel so trampled on, you know what I'm saying, he wouldn't let me think the things I think. So I feel I'm doing Gods work, you know what I'm saying just because I don't have nothing to pass around for people to put money in a bucket don't mean I ain't doing God's work.“
— Tupac Shakur
„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
„During these travels he's starting to train me in a most interesting way. We'd be sitting somewhere and I'd say,"Did I ever tell you about the time that Tim and I …"And he'd say, "Don't think about the past. Just be here now."Silence.And I'd say, "How long do you think we're going to be on this trip?"And he'd say, "Don't think about the future. Just be here now."I'd say, "You know, I really feel crumby, my hips are hurting …"“
— Ram Dass
„You'll never make me staySo take your weight off of me.I know your every moveSo won't you just let me be.I've been here times beforeBut I was too blind to seeThat you seduce every man.This time you won't seduce me.“
— Michael Jackson
„Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.“
— Lewis Carroll
„You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!“
— Emily Brontë