These quotes capture van Gogh's view of stars as a source of comfort. "I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day. When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. But when shall I ever paint the Starry Sky, this painting that keeps haunting me. Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star. To die quietly of old age would be to go there on foot. Someday death will take us to another star." 

He could only feel deeply and idealised things at times like myself. He felt everything too deeply and when he gave it to a human, they stepped backwards and were terrified by the fire and so he focus on his art. It was more stable and comforting for him. So he drew the sky and the stars and like the little prince, in the end, the snake took him to the star with a loud sound only on the sun flowers field.