Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
Van Gogh, Vincent. Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker, Van Gogh Museum and Huygens ING, 2009.
Philosophically, Rivera was a pacifist, but when in the Spanish Civil War he hfelt he had no other recourse but to protect his people from the onslaught of the German and Italian supported Fascists. Civilian populations were deliberately bombed from the air. However, when he had to give the order to fire he added this philosophical/religious wrinkle.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful, and his suicide at 37 came after years of mental illness, depression and poverty.
