Think of my rants and posts as they would come from Edgar, Vincent, and Dali.

We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin’s...

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had topaint. Whether he painted well or badly didn’t matter; painting was thestuff that held him together as a man. The chief value of art, Vincent, liesin...

Dans chaque vie où de la pluie doit tomber, quelques jours seront sombres et lugubres – c’est vrai, il ne peut en aller autrement, et pourtant je me demande si le nombre de jours sombres...

Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously...

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The role affected me deeply. I was haunted by this talented genius who took...

How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly lonely, never alone.

They said what doesn’t kill you made you stronger. No, it left you with holes blown through your soul.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.

Van Gogh: “It is precisely in learning to suffer without complaining,29 learning to consider pain without repugnance, that one risks vertigo a little; and yet it might be possible, yet one glimpses even a vague...

Ah! my dear friend, to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us… a consolatory art for distressed hearts! There are as yet only a few who feel it...

Van Gogh on his brother’s upcoming marriage: “It’s because he’s in Holland, where he’s getting married one of these days. Now, while not denying the advantages of a marriage in the very least, once it...