“Van Gogh.. Fascinating. The fragility of that strong spirit.”

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

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Dutch painter 1895–1981

Irving Stone book Lust for Life

Source: Lust for Life

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”

Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker

“I have Van Gogh's ear for music”

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

“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

“It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.
[Vincent Van Gogh]”

Irving Stone book Lust for Life

Source: Lust for Life

“It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh’s stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.”

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director

Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947)

“When I first saw the work of the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Van Dongen and the Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.”

Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) Peintre Néerlandais

Source: Quote of Mondrian about his 1890' years; in 'Mondrian, Essays' ('Plastic art and pure plastic art', 1937 and his other essays, (1941-1943) by Piet Mondrian; Wittenborn-Schultz Inc., New York, 1945, p. 10; as cited in De Stijl 1917-1931 - The Dutch Contribution to Modern Art, by H.L.C. Jaffé http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/jaff001stij01_01/jaff001stij01_01.pdf; J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam 1956, p. 40

“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

“I venerate van Gogh. He was a remarkable human being, a man who knew about love. His work reflects a spirit filled with light, even though his life was a tragedy in many ways.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Reflections (1981)

“I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.”

Dennis Miller (1953) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor

The Rants

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