Vincent van Gogh

painter

dad joke

suicide

trivia

leaving

post-impressionism

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Lego

failure

1990s

Ludwig van Beethoven

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sunset

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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.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

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.

(of Vincent van Gogh) The visualized ravings of an adult maniac. If this is art it must be ostracized, as the poets were banished from Plato's republic.

is a painter in whose work the emotions are sometimes so strong that he works without knowing it and the strokes come like speech.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

is a painter who uses color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express himself powerfully.

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

is a painter who, in painting, wants to say something comforting.

In a painting I want to say something comforting.

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.

Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully.

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.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

is a painter whose moods change but the average is serenity.

Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

Vincent van Gogh, n.Trivia

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