Alva Addison Publishers announces the release of The Wisdom of Van Gogh. This 3-volume series collects the best of van Gogh’s quotes on the three issues most central to his life: Art, Work and Spirituality.
Each book presents the artist’s most poignant quotes, paired with carefully-chosen color reproductions of his paintings. The series is available in paperback and eBook at www.amazon.com/author/tomwillett.
Van Gogh is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of the modern era, his works now famously commanding prices in excess of $100 million USD. Less well known is that he was as talented a writer as he was a painter. Throughout his career, van Gogh wrote more than 800 letters detailing not only his creative processes, but his ongoing struggle to live life at the intersection of art, commerce and spirituality.
Series Editor, Tom Willett, recalls, “I first encountered the letters of Vincent van Gogh in the mid-‘80s at a screening of Paul Cox’s biopic, Vincent.
Shot from van Gogh’s point-of-view and evocatively voiced by British actor John Hurt, the words of the artist’s intimate letters to his brother, Theo, are heard as you encounter the scenes, landscapes and people which served as the inspiration for many of van Gogh’s greatest paintings.”
During the next three decades, Willett pored over the more than 850,000 words of Vincent’s letters, collecting his most aphoristic sayings and organizing them topically. Repeated themes which emerged include art, work, spirituality, nature, beauty, books, society, culture, money, perseverance and faith. “Although our lives are separated by 150 years,” muses Willett, “I am continually amazed at how apropos van Gogh’s insights are for anyone seeking to balance creativity, success and spirituality in their personal and business lives.”
Whether you’re an artist in need of inspiration, or simply a person looking for relief from the innumerable stressors of 21st century life, The Wisdom of Van Gogh offers practical advice for creative living.
Alva Addison Publishers announces the release of The Wisdom of Van Gogh
