why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

my only guess is that shirtless van brogh is tired of rainbow world and is painting scenes of endless war and suffering on the side of his van

Getting a real Jack T. Chick vibe from the whole thing...not his exact style, but there's a certain woolly overstuffed-ness that rings a bell.

i thought it was the sydney opera house for a moment but yeah, idk what the rabbit ears are about

love the mushroom cloud eye socket

and the pile of better cheddars in the bottom left corner

van brogh

Hahahaha

left world looks pretty cool

right world is v orange, like is there some kind of problem with the sun or radiation fallout or something

the toxic shroud of skull fungus pays no attention to left/right borders

Rabbit ears are bombs, I guess.

And that's a Goya scene beyond the jail window, is Van Gogh dissing Goya?

http://weblog.timoregan.com/uploaded_images/give-the-man-the-finger-708923.jpg

yet another entry in the genre of left side dystopian hellscape/right side hippie paradise

Doesn't he realize he's cutting the rope in the wrong place to effectively collapse the bridge?

Also, that they prob have guns and can shoot him without ever setting foot on that bridge?

why would the police have guns?

Perhaps they have invested in helicopters also. Or have recruited pole vaulters into the police force. Or they hired Evel Knieval to jump the chasm. Or they might bring bulldozers to push mountains of refuse into that chasm, bridging it.

yet another entry in the genre of left side dystopian hellscape/right side hippie paradise

the left side has culture and transport and delicious macchiatos

fuck that guy

http://i.imgur.com/hp1GFWf.jpg

Wait, is this saying that art and culture ultimately depend on a state monopoly of violence, a Leviathan argument?

In general tho, fuck murderous cops, racism, war, prisons and greed and yay parrots, butterflies and painting cool stuff.

read that as "left side dystopian hellscape/right side nipple paradise" and got to squinting really hard.

keep calm and bros before hoes

Keep Calm and Put Em On The Glass

Keep Calm and LUNGS LUNGS, MOTHERFUCKIN LUNGS

a famous painter quoted on something he didn't paint

it's not like van gogh jpgs are hard to find

vincent van goth

I was thinking it was the best Choose Your Own Adventure cover ever.

If you decide to die of passion,
turn to page 88.

If you think you'd rather die of boredom,
turn to page 124.

I mean the fact it's not a vg painting speaks volumes, this is purely about attitudes one takes on/puts on one's status feed and the name the quote is attributed to doesn't mean a row of buttons

you all sure are quick to the punch that this isn't a van gogh picture.

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It's a travesty

is it even a van gogh quote?

from van gogh's "airbrushed van art" period

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I would rather die of passion than of boredom. – Vincent van Gogh

it's too bad van gogh didn't decide he would rather live.

that sounds trite, but i really mean it. his development as an artist was insanely rapid - didn't start painting till his 30s iirc - and he would have gone on to do interesting things in the 20th century, i'm sure

http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/14/378.htm

Apparently Van Gogh quoting Emile Zola, from a character in a novel who overheard someone say it in the street.

[Mourier says: “If you think yourself strong because you refuse to be stupid and to suffer, well, then you are just a fool, that's all.”

“Are you enjoying yourself?”

Mouret did not seem to understand immediately, but when he remembered their earlier conversation about the empty stupidity and the pointless torture of life, he replied, “Of course - I have never lived so intensely... Ah! old fellow, don't scoff! The hours when one dies of suffering are shortest.”

“I want her, I will have her... and - if she escapes me then you'll see what I do to be cured of it all. You don't understand this language, old fellow; other-wise you would know that action is its own reward - to act, to create. To fight against the facts, to conquer them or be conquered by them, therein lies all human health and happiness!”

“That's just acting in order to forget” - muttered the other, “Well, I prefer such action - if perish we must - I would sooner perish of passion than die of boredom.” (Emile Zola, Au bonheur des dames)]

"It's too bad I won't live! But then again, who does?" -Van Gogh

haha

i kind of like that image macro btw. the paintbrush is heading straight toward the barrel of the gun held by the skullfaced man with an atom cloud coming out of his eye socket. i think it's a metaphor.

you're a metaphor

i've heard worse

They did not listen. They did not know how. Perhaps they'll listen – no, they still don't know how, dammit.

"atom cloud"

trying to think of a way to respond to that.

haha you could try "don't be a dick, Sufjan." my inner monologue said as much after I'd already hit 'submit post' ;_;

but still it's not an "atom cloud"

lol.

i was going to respond "english is my twelfth language" and have everyone become retroactively impressed at just how well i do write in english. but i figured i would be found out eventually if i did that.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BQN1qTRCQAAW5H3.jpg

this is essentially fuckhead bingo

fucking kids and their "rights"

"i was smacked and white and uneducated and look how i turned out"