The artist is a man with his work to do

“Doctor Rey says that, instead of eating enough and at regular times, I have been keeping myself going by coffee and alcohol. I admit all that, but it is true, all the same, that to attain the high yellow note that I attained last summer, I really had to be pretty well strung up. The artist is a man with his work to do.”

—Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone, 1958.