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Parents and teachers often kill children's creativity by threatening them with failure, said Vincent Van Gogh, nephew of the Dutch artist of the same name...
...Gogh told an audience of 150 at the Fogg Museum that because of this threat many potentially creative people become inhibited and passively conform to the demands of others. Creativity demands independent opinion, not passive acceptance of other people's ideas, he insisted...
...Painter (Litfle Movies), an extremely funny 15-minute film, may be taken as a solemn leg-pull of the recent vogue for dribble-and-splotch painters, those athletic canvas-coverers whose style owes less to Van Gogh's brush technique than to Stan Laurel's custard pie stance. Or it may be taken as an explicit set of instructions for getting rich...
...Elizabeth Myers, wealthy daughter of the founder of Ohio's Myers Pump Co., Mitchell lives on a 30-acre estate with a half-mile of waterfront on Sharps Point outside Annapolis, owns Maryland's most valuable private collection of paintings (Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh), and uses a luxuriously appointed houseboat as a writing hideaway (four published books on sailing, one unpubished novel...
...themes early in life: "Cezanne took apples. Monet took trees. I was born where there were no trees or apples-only frozen apples-to take. So I took what there was." Emphasizing his view, he added: "Gauguin went to Tahiti, but the Gauguin who painted before Tahiti remained. Van Gogh in Holland-The Potato-Eaters-is very important. Experience, yes. Gauguin had an experience. But experience is not a passport to the company of Rembrandt." What is? "Genius...