“Van Gogh.. Fascinating. The fragility of that strong spirit.”

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”

“I have Van Gogh's ear for music”

“This exchange – mainly in the form of letters [between the brothers van Gogh] – was not only about painting and art, but covered everything to do with one's existence and the philosophical or religious colouring, in a word: for the reader of the letters written by Vincent to his brother a total of human behaviour is revealed that of the dual being of van Gogh. This is how my first wish and then obsession was started, to build a monument for the two van Gogh brothers.”

“It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.
[Vincent Van Gogh]”

“It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh’s stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.”

“When I first saw the work of the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Van Dongen and the Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.”

“You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry.
[Vincent Van Gogh]”

“I venerate van Gogh. He was a remarkable human being, a man who knew about love. His work reflects a spirit filled with light, even though his life was a tragedy in many ways.”

“I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.”