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June 11, 2007
vincent
Is it still possible to write more words about him? I think of those already written, mine included, and the answer is ‘No’. If I look at his paintings, the answer is again-for a different reason- ‘No’; the canvases command silence. I almost said plead for, and that would have been false, for there is nothing pathetic about a single image he made-not even the old man with his head in his hands at the gates of eternity. All his life he hated blackmail and pathos.
John Berger
Posted by amin at June 11, 2007 1:42 AM