My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.
I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn].
Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the sum of its material characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday life.
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
I think the worst lie I ever told was, because my last name is Goth, I used to tell kids at school that I used to be related to 'Van Gogh' and when I turned 18, I would inherit all the fortune from the sunflower painting.
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh. . . Robert Schumann has been mentioned. . . Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath. . . some of them with rather grim ends.
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.
I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture. . . like Van Gogh. . . so who's to say what's good and bad?
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. . . . Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not the sky as it is but the sky as he felt it. And the more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.
