Don’t Feel Sorry for Vincent van Gogh
Instead find the positives in his triumphs
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6 min readDec 10, 2019
“In spite of everything I shall rise again; I shall take up my pencil which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.” Vincent van Gogh
My students always love the old romantic tropes about van Gogh — Vincent the starving artist who only sold one painting, Vincent the…
