Kristi Deming

“I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.”
― Van Gogh on "The Night Cafe" painting

“It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few, and leave a good example for those who come after. A work that is good may not last for ever, but the thought expressed by it will. And the work itself will surely survive for a very long time. And those who come later can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and copy their example."
"The Letters of Vincent van Gogh" (Amsterdam, 3 March 1878)”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.”
― Van Gogh, Cartas a Théo