But I owe something to Vincent [Van Gogh], and that is . . . the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
Source: Intimate Journals, translated by Van Wyck Brooks, 1923.
-- Paul Gauguin, (Jun 7 1848-1903), French painter; He was a post-impressionist Romantic painter noted for massive simplified themes, impassive figures and exotic backgrounds.