It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . .The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process, but I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. I wish they would only take me as I am. In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent.
