“The craft is finding a decent drainpipe to get access to the site as much as it is in the art… Van Gogh used short, stumpy brush strokes to convey his insanity - I use short, thin ledges above mainline train tracks.”

— Banksy

Evening Post, 2004 (taken from "Home Sweet Home - Banksy's Bristol" by Steve Wright)
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Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Wall and Piece (2007)

“Painted using my penis instead of a brush. A short video of that performance will be sold with the painting.”

Pricasso (1949) Australian painter

Description of his portrait of Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard, his submission to the Bald Archy Prize — cited in: [Artists brush up on wit for poke at awards, Canberra Times, 12 February 2011, Federal Capital Press of Australia Ltd., Australia]

“I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.”

Billy Childish (1959) British musician

Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22876-2475809.html The Times, 2006-12-02

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

“This exchange – mainly in the form of letters [between the brothers van Gogh] – was not only about painting and art, but covered everything to do with one's existence and the philosophical or religious colouring, in a word: for the reader of the letters written by Vincent to his brother a total of human behaviour is revealed that of the dual being of van Gogh. This is how my first wish and then obsession was started, to build a monument for the two van Gogh brothers.”

Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967) French sculptor

Source: 1940 - 1960, Les frères Van Gogh, origine et justification', c. 1955, pp. 67-69

“I didn't want to get into a political debate with him, but my patience was running thin…My shorts were getting a little tight.”

Arlen Specter (1930–2012) American politician; former United States Senator from Pennsylvania

About disagreeing with President Bush on Iraq (January 30, 2007) http://web.archive.org/web/20070224235858/http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/16587417.htm?source=rss&channel=inquirer_nation.

“About Van Gogh.. a man who is on fire, a torch. His sincerity is absolute. His best painting is the grain field where he kills himself. There we find ourselves at the border of the art of painting. We cannot go further.”

Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter

1980's
Source: Je peins l'Impossibilité de peindre, by M. Nuridsany, newspaper Le Figaro, 24-10-1989, p. 35, as quoted in Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 40 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)

“I have Van Gogh's ear for music”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

“You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry.
[Vincent Van Gogh]”

Irving Stone book Lust for Life

Source: Lust for Life

“Today I visited Van Gogh's exhibition. I can not help it, but I think it's art for Eskimos, I can not enjoy it. I find it fairly crude and obnoxious, without the slightest distinction, and besides that everything is stolen from Millet and others.”

George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923) Dutch painter and photographer

translation from the original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek
version in original Dutch (citaat van Breitner's brief, in het Nederlands:) Vandaag ben ik op de expositie van Van Gogh geweest. Ik kan het niet helpen, maar ik vind het kunst voor Eskimo's, ik kan er niet van genieten. Ik vind het eerlijk grof en onhebbelijk, zonder de minste distinctie, en buitendien alles nog een gestolen goedje van Millet en anderen.
Breitner's quote in his letter to Mrs. Van der Weele, (nr. 36) 25 Dec. 1892; as cited by P.H. Hefting, 'Brieven van G.H. Breitner aan H.J. van der Weele' https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/245951, in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 27 1976, pp. 112-172
Breitner wrote his letter after visiting the large Van Gogh-exhibition in the Panorama Room, December 1892
1890 - 1900

“The craft is finding a decent drainpipe to get access to the site as much as it is in the art… Van Gogh used short, stumpy brush strokes to convey his insanity - I use short, thin ledges above mainline train tracks.”

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