Vincent Van Gogh shot himself at the age of 37
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime; a few months before he died.

Vincent van Gogh didn't start painting until he was 28-years-old.
Vincent van Gogh is a painter whose brushwork is quite unsystematic: he slams the paint on in all sorts of ways and leaves each result to take care of itself.
Vincent van Gogh is a painter who uses color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express himself powerfully.
Vincent van Gogh is a painter whose work was the visualized ravings of an adult maniac: a kind of art that ought to be ostracized, as the poets were banished from Plato's republic.
Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the chest, missed all vital organs, bud died 30 hours later
Vincent van Gogh is a painter in whose work the emotions are sometimes so strong that he works without knowing it and the strokes come like speech.


Vincent van Gogh is a painter who loved yellow - this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.
Vincent van Gogh is a painter who, instead of trying to reproduce exactly what he sees before him, makes an arbitrary use of color to express himself more forcefully.