MAD GENIUS

Sketch: Yafiz Siddiqui

VINCENT WILLEM VAN GOGH

30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890
Van Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work—notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color—had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died at a very early age from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found). His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

In spite of everything
I shall rise again:
I will take up my pencil,
which I have forsaken in
my great discouragement,
and I will go on with
my drawing.

The more I think about it,
the more I realise there is
nothing more artistic than
to love others."