Showing posts with label artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artists. Show all posts
Friday, March 30, 2012
Vincent (Starry Starry Night) Don McLean
What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.
Vincent van Gogh
30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890
(Letter to Theo van Gogh, 1882)
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Ed Stein - Rocky Mountain News - Jan 20, 2009
Barack Obama assumes the presidency today, and takes on a list of problems longer than any chief executive since FDR has had to face. I'll leave those for another day. There will be ample time to assess Obama's performance during the next four years. For today, I simply want to mark the historic moment.
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