VAN GOGH

The brush strokes. The colours. The music.

I wasn’t just looking at Van Gogh’s lifetime of artwork, I was in it.

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Vincent Willem Van Gogh

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Willem Van Gogh

We know that Van Gogh severely cut his ear after a fight with his friend, Paul Gauguin, and we know that he checked himself into a mental hospital in late 19th century France. 

There he stayed for about a year.

Few of us know that this may have been the most productive period of his life when, according to the hospital, he "produced more than 100 drawings and 150 paintings." It is believed that the best way that helped Van Gogh with his depression was through Art Therapy.

THE BLOG; “If Van Gogh Could Talk About Art Therapy” by John M. Eger, Contributor