What Do You Know About Van Gogh?
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Mental Health and Artistic Expression
Mental health is a crutch that helps you get through your day, but it doesn't actually make you a better artist. There's a great quote in a vango about how if i could have worked without this terrible disease, what things i might have donea. But he died thinking he was a failed painter, like a failed artist. Um, because his, his paintings were popular, but they weren't world wide popular yet. It makes me feel really bad for him. To to have this brilliance, but also this pain, this exquisite pain. He killed himself a, because of this mental illness, and he he couldn't take it any more.
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