Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human condition.
— Graham Greene
because all I have to give is music
— Chet Baker
Tormented Souls
…. Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all. Certainly the most popular, great painter of all time. The most beloved, his command of colours are the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into estactic beauty. Pain is easy to portray but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstacy and joy and the magnificence of our world, no one has ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind, the strange man who roamed the field of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist but also one of the greatest men who’ve ever lived.
Dr Black (Vincent and the Doctor), 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RuU9nBmAVs
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Did you notice that the most beautiful things are always created by tormented souls? That’s sad but beautiful.
