Well… um… big question, but, 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 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 roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.
Over all the millennia, only you have ever loved me, Thor. Only you have ever looked at me with affection in place of condescension. Why, then, am I killing you, and not the others? Because you stopped.
— Loki Laufeyson (Loki Vol. 1 #4)
Bill Brandt, London (1954)
I do not regret it anyway maybe a bit, Hannibal is awesome.
I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example…
f r a g m e n t s 1/6 : A Study in Pink
