Instead of giving way to despair, I took the way of active melancholy as long as I had strength for activity, or in other words, I preferred the melancholy that hopes and aspires and searches to the one that despairs, mournful and stagnant.

Vincent Van Gogh, from a letter to his brother. (via sheepskeleton)
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btyciane:

Where do you think Van Gogh rates in the history of art?