[caption id=“attachment_8365” align=“alignright” width=“301”] Vase with Pink Roses, 1890. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington[/caption]

This time in Who Said That! a quote from someone who knew how to live an eventful life. He wouldn’t settle for anything mediocre or devoid of authentic feeling, saying that

“I WOULD RATHER DIE OF PASSION

THAN OF BOREDOM_"_

And who was that? You might think it was someone who dove into passionate relationships with vengeance, not caring about the consequences of a potentially socially totally (or, at the very least, less) acceptable liaison or behavior. Or perhaps a person to whom his love of art and creative pursuit was everything, surpassing everything else in life.

Well, the above quotation is in fact

from the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) who was very prolific, but who also suffered from psychotic episodes. Unsuccessful in many of his undertakings, and considered by many of his contemporaries a madman and a failure, it was and is quite easy to believe that his death by gunshot was a suicide. That is disputed though in the 2016 film Loving Vincent. Be it as it may, his life was pretty eventful, and he left a lasting legacy that can be seen for example in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Here is the trailer of Loving Vincent - the world’s first fully painted feature film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47h6pQ6StCk