“…to me, Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all.Certainly, the most popular, great painter of all time, the most beloved. His command of color the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty.Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world…no one had ever done it before. Perhaps, no one ever will again. To my mind, that strange, wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.” - [x]

I cried so hard when I saw this episode, and I’m crying again. To capture that feeling of despair, loneliness & hopelessness, and the feeling of being completely alone in the world… Then to see that there was meaning to the madness & pain… I have those desires to end things. I’m certainly no Van Gogh, but I think of all the art we would have seen if he had been able to hold on, and I realize how important it is for me to hold on, as well.

(Source: dinklages)