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I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!.

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.

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.