18
03
2008
Van Gogh bemoans the money-people in art
Posted by: admin in Vincent van Gogh, Artist quote, Idealizing bohemian excess, International art failure, Commerce and the failure of art, The struggles of artists“[Galleries and art firms] are in the clutches of fellows who intercept all the money,.. [and only] one-tenth of all the business that is transacted… is really done out of belief in art.”
–Vincent Van Gogh, after his failure as an art dealer, in a letter to his sister Wilhelmina Van Gogh
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