Next time you are in Amsterdam...

...Visit the Van Gogh Museum instead of the red light district. But if you want to steal a painting (it has happened before and the work has not been returned), chances are you will not make it out alive. But Holland laws says possesion is 9/10th of who has it, and after possesion of an item of over 20 years, it is yours to keep.

My brother was talking about Van Gogh the other day. He said Van Gogh committed suicide in a field that he just painted called, Wheat Field with Crows . So I looked Van Gogh up on wikipedia to bust that myth. He actually had an interesting short lived life.



For an artist who had so many classic works of art, he died at 37. And he started to paint when he was 27 years old. Before Van Gogh was a painter, he was a preacher. Interesting turn of events that ended up in a mental hospital. Everybody probably knows that Vinny cut off a part of his ear to show his girlfriend that he loved her (typical French romantic), but his not many people know about his suicide. His suicide attempt was made by a revolver to his chest. Van Gogh did not die instantly. In fact, he walked himself back to his room at his hospital and died two weeks later.
(I would have done it differently)

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...

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced....

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process...