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

“Do you know why we have the sunflowers? It’s not because Vincent van Gogh suffered. It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved him. Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. And that is the focus of the story we need – connection.”
― Hannah Gadsby

“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

“and to think that such in human life: to be born, to work, tolove, to grow and to disappear.”
― Words of Conscience, Vincent van Gogh quotes in his letter to Theo