It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if… — Robert Hughes
It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.
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