Sunday, September 26, 2010

Van Gogh on painting


Warning to readers prone to fits of nervous fainting: this quotation contains a dodgy un-PC simile.

From a letter written in summer 1888:

“Painting is like keeping a mistress of ill-repute who does nothing but spend money and more money and never has enough.”

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