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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. - Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother

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Between Brother Drawing Feels His Invisible Iron Letters Oneself Seems Stand Through Van Van Gogh Wall Working

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Hokusai
Japanese - Artist
October 31, 1760 - May 10, 1849

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh.

Pierre Berge

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.

Roy Blount, Jr.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Vincent Van Gogh

I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.

Irving Stone

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Irving Stone

I've always been really fascinated by Vincent van Gogh.

Michael C. Hall

Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.

Henri Nouwen

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Irving Stone

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

Irving Stone

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

Bonnie Bassler

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

Irving Stone

One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn].

Paul Smith

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

Tupac Shakur

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

Jerry Saltz

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

David Lynch

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

John Russell

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