Art Quote by Peter D. Kramer

“This is why a tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would…

— Antonin Artaud

“Against all expectations, the symptoms of Van Gogh’s mental illness are conspicuous by their almost complete absence from his letters. Much as he chose…

— Vincent van Gogh

“Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or because of—his…

— David Lynch

I would like to think that an artist's mental health is taken into consideration more now.

— Kate Nash

It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms…

— Robert Hughes

Vincent van Gogh was sane when he painted that piece of art, because when you you feel the mania and depression, you have all…

— Paul Dalio

Van Gogh was impulsive.

— Joni Mitchell

“Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays”

— Dean Cavanagh

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

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world…

— Anonymous

“ 'Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for fools? ”

— Irving Stone

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