“Malvo (Van Gogh’s friend) takes offense at my having said that I am an artist. I do not take it back because that word includes the meaning of always seeking without absolutely finding. As far as I know, that word means: I am seeking. I am striving. I am in with all my heart. It is just the contrary of saying, “I know it. I have found it.” – Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo.