Today I was thinking about about Van Gogh...Is there anyone not moved by his work?! I think humans have empathy for those of us who are boiling with passion so much you can barley keep the lid on and half the people you meet think you are cracked. You are guaranteed to anger a lot of people and to alienate others but in the end it is worth it. Artist are no different than anyone else but rather they are just more mono-focused on things most people dont pay attention to. It is better to live five years alive and on fire and misunderstood than to live sixty years in a cocoon --- then again the lumps hurt worse when you grow older.
It's cold comfort
To the ones without it
To know how they struggled --
How they suffered about it
If their lives were
Exotic and strange
They would likely have
Gladly exchanged them
For something a little more plain
Maybe something a little more sane
We each pay a fabulous price
For our visions of paradise
But a spirit with a vision
Is a dream with a mission...
N.peart
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