“I repeatedly told myself that the life of Vincent van Gogh and his colossal oeuvre – are not an individual outburst but a special and rare occurrence based on the special bond between the two brothers, only broken by Vincent's suicide.”

—  Ossip Zadkine

Source: 1940 - 1960, Les frères Van Gogh, origine et justification', c. 1955, p. 66

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