• When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

    Vincent Van Gogh: When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
    Letter to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, September 29, 1888. "An Examined Faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment" by James Luther Adams and George K. Beach, p. 259, 1991.