Sadly, the art world only started to appreciate Van Gogh’s magnificent paintings after his death.Ī Lust for Life is an excellent book for all fans of Vincent Van Gogh. I am not sure if it was the author’s intention, but Maya seems be a metaphor for the future art world. Wherever two men come together who love paintings, there the name of Vincent Van Gogh will be sacred…” Books will be written about your art, Vincent, novels and plays built around your life. Your pictures will hang in the museums of Amsterdam and The Hague, in Paris and Dresden, Munich and Berlin, Moscow and New York, Your pictures will be priceless, because there will be none for sale. Ah, you smile, but I tell you it is true.

The canvases that today you cannot sell for a hundred francs will one day sell for a million. “…After you are gone, Vincent, the world will understand what you have tried to say. In this book, Vincent encounters a fictitious Maya during one of his mental breakdowns. We think the prostitute is as good as the countess, the concierge as good as the general, the peasant as good as the cabinet minister, for they all fit into the pattern of nature and are woven into the design of life!”įarmers planting Potatoes in Nuenen – Van Gogh Painting The Wise & Beautiful Words of Maya … We put character above ugliness, pain above prettiness and hard, crude reality above all the wealth in France…. “First, we think all truth is beautiful, no matter how hideous its face may seem. Van Gogh believed that the world of the downtrodden was worthy of painting. He had no interest in painting portraits of the rich, which had a lucrative market in those times. Vincent Van Gogh also preferred to paint peasants at work, in their working clothes & in their humble homes. Van Gogh’s paintings were not visually appealing as they were different to the traditional art of the time. Yet his was unable to sell Vincent’s paintings. Vincent Van Gogh’s brother, Theo, worked as an art dealer in an affluent art gallery in Paris during the Post-Impressionism era.

Van Gogh Saw Beauty where Others saw Ugliness He carried with him a huge sense of failure throughout his entire life. And yet, Van Gogh lived a life of poverty and loneliness. Ironically, today the art world hails this Dutch artist as one of the greatest post-Impressionists of modern times. Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime.

Lust for life by irving stone