Quote by Irving Stone

“The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The role affected…

— Kirk Douglas

Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“We all can’t paint like Van Gogh. We might not be the ones who found cure for cancer or invented flying shoes but it…

— Nesta Jojoe Erskine

“art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people's hearts”

— Taha Muhammad Ali

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

— Billy Childish

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an…

— John Russell

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

— Georges Braque

“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.…

— Zbigniew Herbert

If you're starting to lose your faith in the general intelligence of the American populous, there's nothing like them mistaking pop culture for Van…

— Ben Feldman

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

— David Bailey