"He was a painter with social ideas. His story is not that of an eye, a palette, a brush, but the tale of a lonely heart which beat within the walls of a dark prison, longing and suffering without knowing why,
until one day it saw the sun, and in the sun recognised the secret of life. It flew towards it and was consumed in its rays." - Wilhelm Uhde (1874-1947) art collector and critic.
Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890 was a Dutch artist, a Post-Impressionist, whose paintings greatly influenced 20th century art.
