Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.
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 the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.
I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
Van Gogh was impulsive.
If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
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