Even if you can't afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be transported. You can see the discipline and suffering in a van Gogh.
High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
My wife is the expert, but I like art particularly. I like Van Gogh.
Some people are drawn to a van Gogh or a Rembrandt. Some are attracted to exotic guns. Coins. Stamps. I am attracted to cars.
I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.
