Jamie Lele

“Housed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the following plate was completed in 1886, portraying the unusual subject of a skeleton smoking a cigarette. The work has roused many interpretations, including a depiction of mortality and a prophetic cry of the dangers of tobacco. In the next two years, van Gogh painted two other paintings with skulls, illustrating his fascination with the macabre subject.”
― Vincent van Gogh, Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“So instead of giving in to despair I chose active melancholy, in so far as I was capable of activity, in other words I chose the kind of melancholy that hopes, that strives and that seeks, in preference to the melancholy that despairs numbly and in distress.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky. Since life, in spite of everything, is like a fairytale.”
― Vincent van Gogh