Status Updates From Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait

"Art is something greater and higher than our own adroitness or accomplishments or knowledge; art is something which, although produced by human hands, is not created by these hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source in our souls."

"Art is something greater and higher than our own adroitness or accomplishments or knowledge; art is something which, although produced by human hands, is not created by these hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source in our souls."

"We should never budge, we should answer back, and we should make them feel our nails a little."

"How much sadness there is in life, nevertheless one must not get melancholy, and one must seek distraction in other things."

"Things are infinitely more complicated, and right and wrong do not exist separately, any more than black and white do in nature."

"It does not always help to get advice from somebody else, clever though he may be, and those who are cleverest are not always clever in explaining things clearly."

"For great things are not done just by impulse, but are a series of small things put together."

"We do not see the same things with the same eyes, nor do the same thoughts occur to us."

"In spite of everything I shall rise again. "

Dearest Vincent, I know you were unaware that a severely depressed author 141 years in the future would read the letter you reluctantly wrote to your little brother, but she did, and she wishes she could reach back across time and space to thank you for reminding her that she needs to keep going, that she can and will keep going.