“ A carpenter is hired- a roof repaired, a porch built. Everything that can be fixed. June, July, August. Everyday we hear their laughter. I think of the painting by van Gogh, the man in the chair. Ever… Mary Oliver
“ I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made.. Vincent Van Gogh
“ There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. Vincent Van Gogh
“ Vincent took them in the full spirit of friendship which knows that the difference between giving and taking is purely temporal. Irving Stone
“ These workers, said Mendes with a gentle sweep of his arm, have a hard life of it. When illness comes they have no money for a doctor. The food for tomorrow comes from today's labour, and hard labour… Irving Stone
“ Curling leaves and twining branches outside my bay window look like a Van Gogh in the starlight - there is a river out there somewhere Jeffrey Rasley
“ Sometimes I think that just as trains and carriages are means of locomotion to get us from one place to another on this earth, so typhoid and consumption are means of locomotion to get us from one wor… Irving Stone
“ This is the second Old Master I have encountered that has the signatures of another artist forged over it. A painting that has been created by another artist entirely. It's like they played mix and ma… Dayna S. Rubin
“ When you look at Van Gogh, Jesus, Buddha, Mother Teresa from a "fiscal" perspective, they were homeless. When you look at them from a humanityperspective, they were priceless. Natalie Pace
