For Van Gogh, more than for any other artist, painting was life. For the sake of it he was willing to sacrifice home, money, happiness, health and even sanity. The story of his thirty-seven years of poverty, loneliness and failure is in fact a triumphant saga of absolute dedication and the final realization of genius. Through his intense vision Van Gogh was able to create paintings that speak directly to us all. Today this disturbed and rejected misfit is the most universally loved of all artists.
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