Thursday, May 01, 2008

About Vincent Van Goh and his words.

Vincent Van Goh - the painter of peasant life.

1. It is true that I am often in the greatest misery, but still there is a calm, pure harmony and music inside me.

2. When a man seriously falls in love, it is the discovery of a new hemisphere.

3. There is no old woman as long as she loves and is loved.
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Gauguin Cut Off Van Gogh's Ear

Vincent van Gogh is remembered as the tortured artistic genius who cut off his own ear and then killed himself two years later. But a new study finds that van Gogh only pretended to cut off his ear to protect close friend and fellow painter Paul Gauguin, who sliced it off with a sword during an argument. Historians Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans point to a few references by van Gogh of a “pact of silence” with Gauguin to back up their claims. Van Gogh also drew a picture of his ear with the word “ictus” next to it—the Latin term in fencing to mean a hit. Van Gogh was “hopelessly infatuated” with Gauguin, and their fight—not his own madness—is what led him to commit suicide, the historians claim.

4. The lark cannot be silent as long as he has a voice.

5. Even as a boy I would often look up with infinite sympathy, indeed with respect, at a woman's face past its prime, inscribed as if it were with the words: here life and reality have left their mark.

CHARITY CAME SIMPLY AND NATURALLY TO VINCENT VAN GOH.


6. I want to go through the joys and sorrows of domestic life in order to paint it from my own experience.

7. Where the earth is not plowed you can get no harvest from it. She has been plowed and so I find more in her than in a crowd of unplowed ones.

8. She has never seen good, how can she be good.

9. Love is as frail as a spider's web; and grows to be as strong as a cable. But only on condition of faithfulness.

10. I remember and I paint what I feel.

11. Vincent to his brother Theo: There is the man who is idle from laziness and from lack of character, from the baseness of his nature. On the other hand there is the idle man who is idle inspite of himself, who is inwardly consumed by a great longing for action but does nothing, because it is impossible for him to do anything, because he seems to be imprisoned in a cage. Such a man does not always know what he could do, but instinctively feels, I am good for something. There is something inside me. What can it be ?

Vincent Van Goh explained that all his flower paintings were experiments in color contrasts and harmonies.

Vincent Van Goh's memorable self portrait of Paris period. The SELF-PORTRAIT with straw hat - yellow and orange with blue, and in the right side of his jaw shows a sunken cheek - the result of a recent tooth extraction.

Vincent and Gauguin did not recognize God but believed in godliness.

Vincen't paintings: Starry Night , The Sower, Delacroix's Pieta ( copy ) in which a grieving Mary is seen trying to revive a dead Christ; Delacrox's " The Good Samaritan " showing a deadly pale, beaten traveler being helped on to a horse.

Vincent Van Goh rued the fact that he was aging, " for it seems to me that life is passing by more rapidly and that the responsibilities are more serious, and the question of how to make up for lost time is more critical, and that the future is more mysterious and a little more gloomy.

Vincent Van Goh: The only painting he sold in his life time - The Red Vineyard ( 1888 ) was purchased for the respectable sum of 400 francs by Anna Boch.

Vincent Van Goh's ailments:

Mid-ear infection; lack of love ( mother ) licking tip of brush; schisophrinic; epilepsy; borderline region between neurology and psychiatry; absinthe consumption; bipolar syndrome; manic-depression.

Let our work be so savant ( learned ) that it seems naive and does not stink of our sapience ( wisdom )

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