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RE: Blossoms and Canals

last month

Thank you! Once again, your writing is inspired, and inspiring. The pictures are wonderful. You actually saw the original painting that I've seen duplicated in countless places. That must have been something.

Your pictures are wonderful (although the Red Light District didn't move me).

Watching the occasional bicycle click past and listening to the water lap against the canal walls was the perfect, quiet bookend to a day that began with the vibrant blossoms of Van Gogh.

Can't top that :)

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@azircon78

last month

That museum alone is worth the visit. It is just dedicated to Vincent as his life. There are numerous original letters on display and you can hear them spoken over by vocalists. It's really well done.

Funny thought. I am sure you have seen this painting either in original or in replicas. When I saw this I had the most strange thought. Here is a penniless man in this tiny spartan apartment, but there are six original oil painting hanging in his wall, each worth at a minimum $10M each :) Yet, he haven’t had a damn clue about it! Poor man writing to his brother asking that he ran out of paints and he needs some desperately!!

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@agmoore75

last month

I've often had this conversation with myself, about the value of life, and what we do in life. So many people want the immortality of being remembered. But that can come at a great cost. It's a tradeoff even in our humble lives (not great artists).

I think posterity could have done without his art, if only he could have lived a happy life. But that wasn't in the cards for him.

Just makes you think, as you say...