From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 06:32:57 MST
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2900195.stm
Van Gogh Birthday marked
"Thousands of fans flocked to Amsterdam's Vincent Van
Gogh Museum on Sunday to celebrate the 150th birthday
of the troubled Dutch painter."
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"Don't forget that little emotions are the great captains of our
lives." (Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, 1888).
"Everything is extraordinarily beautiful here! Everything and
everywhere the color of the sky is an admirable blue, the sun shines
like pale sulfur, it is sweet and charming like the combinations of
blues and yellows in the skies of the Vermeer of Delft."
...
"The subject of painting night scenes or night effects and night
itself interests me tremendously. Night is more alive and more
colorful than day."
(Vincent Van Gogh writing to his brother Theo in 1888 and 1889)
[From a small art gallery in Arles, France, devoted to Vincent Van Gogh.
The place was three floors in a house: memorabalia on the first floor,
and reproductions of his paintings on the next two floors. Among the
paintings were quotes of letters by Vincent to his brother, Theo, and
many of those quotes were translated into English. I learned that
the owner of that place was one of Theo Van Gogh's grandchildren. She
was an older lady (near 80, I think), and we both were so sad that I
didn't speak French, and she didn't speak English. The quotes above,
are examples that I wrote down while I was in the art gallery.]
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