I knew he was okay with the paintings and the drawings and all, but who knew he could write good?

Vincent van Gogh:

'But I must continue on the path I have taken now; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I stop searching, then I am lost, in misery. That is how I see things, persevere, persevere, that is what I must do. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal is becoming more clear, it will take shape slowly but surely, as the scribble becomes a sketch and the sketch becomes a painting. As one works more seriously, and embrodiers on the initially vague idea, the thought at first volatile and transient-until it takes on a concrete form.'

July 1880