{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Natalie Pace","tags":["buddha","gratitude","jesus","leaders","love","mother-teresa","peace","prosperity","religion","van-gogh"],"id":11715,"author_id":"Natalie+Pace"},{"text":"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 match.","author":"Dayna S. Rubin","tags":["abramovich","art","chelsea-fc","davinci","hermitage","holocaust-literature","nasa","suspense-action","the-national-gallery","van-gogh","vermeer"],"id":34902,"author_id":"Dayna+S.+Rubin"},{"text":"You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators. For this painter didn't care about masterpieces, or even good paintings... But about what is beyond all painting, all art.","author":"Zbigniew Herbert","tags":["art","literature","painting","van-gogh","writing","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":48178,"author_id":"Zbigniew+Herbert"},{"text":"And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.","author":"Vincent van Gogh","tags":["life-lessons","love","memories","van-gogh"],"id":49020,"author_id":"Vincent+van+Gogh"},{"text":"I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..","author":"Vincent van Gogh","tags":["art","artists","van-gogh","vincent-van-gogh"],"id":68626,"author_id":"Vincent+van+Gogh"},{"text":"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.","author":"Vincent van Gogh","tags":["fire","smoke","soul","van-gogh"],"id":100578,"author_id":"Vincent+van+Gogh"},{"text":"People are fond of spouting out the old cliché about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is merit in utter failure.Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide. The market for his work took off big-time shortly after his death. Had he decided to stick around another few decades he most likely would’ve entered old age quite prosperous. And sadly for failures everywhere, the cliché would have lost a lot of its power.The fact is, the old clichés work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clichés are clean and tidy.","author":"Hugh MacLeod","tags":["art","clichés","creativity","failure","success","van-gogh"],"id":112670,"author_id":"Hugh+MacLeod"},{"text":"I want to walk inside a Van Gogh sun, and see a better world all different and new.I want to live where there are no shadows, of all those stupid things we both know that we used to do.I want to walk inside a Van Gogh sun, I want to see the world exactly like you do.I want to live where the past doesn’t matter, Whatever it takes I will never give up on you.","author":"Art Alexakis","tags":["art","enthusiasm","inspirational","motivational","passion","rock-and-roll","van-gogh"],"id":160068,"author_id":"Art+Alexakis"},{"text":"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. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go. His hands over his eyes.","author":"Mary Oliver","tags":["art","broken","death-and-dying","death-of-a-loved-one","family","family-relationships","mary-oliver","van-gogh"],"id":193561,"author_id":"Mary+Oliver"},{"text":"A chord that becomes a melodious delusion,In polar discrepancy from blue to yellow painted,In yellow I existed, with digoxin’s deadly illusion,Like Van Gogh’s stars in a bright night untainted.","author":"Selina A. Mahmood","tags":["art","depression","love","poetry","van-gogh"],"id":220652,"author_id":"Selina+A.+Mahmood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}