“The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.”.

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!” We accept life in its entirety without making moral judgments. We put character above ugliness, pain above prettiness and hard, crude reality above all the wealth in France. We think sex is beautiful even when portrayed by a harlot and a pimp. We think pain is good because it is the most profound of all human feelings. We believe there is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris. We accept all of nature, without any repudiation.

“First, we think all truth is beautiful, no matter how hideous its face may seem.

For me there are no obscene pictures or books there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.” But then we all know the worth of his work 120 years down the line.

The hardships faced by Van Gough in his life can be very depressing to read at times, and the sheer persecution he went through makes you question whether it is worth the effort to go for the dreams. It teaches one the value of steadfast perseverance for one’s ultimate aim in life and a dogged resistance to the potential misleading opportunities that arise in the life of every individual. The book can be laborious to read in parts but then has immense instructive potential for any young mind. The narrative of the book is all fictional, but created from the fragments of Van Gogh’s life. The author based the book on the tortured life of Van Gough, who was one of the greatest impressionist painters of all time, though he never achieved this greatness during the course of his life. The reason for this is that the book is based on the life of the great Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gough. The classification it follows is that of a fictional biography. First of all, a disclaimer on the category of this book: This book cannot be regarded as pure fiction.

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