Van Gogh and Picasso
Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso are by far the best represented artists in the list. Whereas Picasso became a wealthy man, Van Gogh (supposedly) sold only one painting in his lifetime, The Red Vineyard, for 400 Francs (about $1600 in 2011) to the impressionist painter and heiress Anna Boch. His seven paintings in the list below alone were sold for over 700 million current dollars.
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Famous quotes containing the words van gogh, van, gogh and/or picasso:
“I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
“Less is more.”
—Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (1886–1969)
“An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
“We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)