«Writing to his brother Theo from Arles in [1888], Van Gogh ... committed himself to conjuring "a sense of the infinite".» It seems to me now that we can think of Van Gogh as a spiritual cousin of the narrator of Pirsig's _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_. In a way. #Mathematics #QualityWithoutAName #Urania BBC article: Café Terrace at Night: Five details that unlock the genius of Van Gogh's original 'starry night'