I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.