Vincent Van Gogh: I tried to show a place where a man can ruin himself, go mad... commit a crime.

- Kirk Douglas (as Vincent Van Gogh) in Lust for Life (1956)

Vincent Van Gogh: If I'm to be anything as a painter I've got to break through that iron wall between what I feel and what I express. my best chance of doing it is here, where my roots are... the people I know, the earth I know.

- Kirk Douglas (as Vincent Van Gogh) in Lust for Life (1956)

Paul Gauguin: I like 'em fat and vicious and not too smart. Nothing spiritual either. To have to say 'I love you' would break my teeth. I don't want to be loved.

- Anthony Quinn (as Paul Gauguin) in Lust for Life (1956)

Paul Gauguin: If it's one thing I despise, it's emotionalism in painting.

- Anthony Quinn (as Paul Gauguin) in Lust for Life (1956)

Paul Gauguin: With all your talk of emotion, all I see when I look at your work is just that you paint too fast!
Vincent Van Gogh: You look too fast!

- Kirk Douglas (as Vincent Van Gogh) in Lust for Life (1956)