VINCENT VAN GOGH

This had been preying on my mind . . . I couldn't recall where it was from but the sentiment summarised what I had been thinking about Vincent Van Gogh . . . . .

Every word of this dialogue issued so brilliantly by Bill Nighy struck home to me and seemed to reveal the truth as I saw it . . . . . . . . . .where is it from?

it's from Dr. Who!

The Doctor meets Van Gogh . . .

"To me Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all. Certainly the most popular great painter of all time. The most beloved. His command of colour. . . the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world . . .  No-one had ever done it before. Perhaps no-one ever will again. To my mind, that strange, wild man who rammed the fields of Provence . . . was not only the world's greatest artists but also one of the greatest man who ever lived."

Tony Curran excellently cast as Vincent in Dr Who

written by Richard Curtis broadcast 5 June 2010 with an uncredited appearance by Bill Nighy

Ha ha ha ha . . . does this make it any less true, meaningful or somehow worth less?

No!

It is still true . . . . . go to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and tell me I am wrong


The notion expressed by Richard Curtis through the delivery by Bill Nighy is almost too painful to seriously contemplate; the pathos of Vincent overhearing an art expert stating the truth that he was destined to never hear nor even glimpse any slight suggestion of that he would become amongst the most beloved of great painters is almost too much to take on board but possesses a kind of natural justice we all wish upon him . . .