“My father said that Mr Van Gogh’s only problem was that he’d made a commitment to something which other people couldn’t understand” “Mr Van Gogh didn’t appear to have anything worth stealing” “The house collapsed like an old elephant in the drought, surrounded by so many enemies…Mr Souness kept laughing” “It was only glass anyway” “There’ll always be a Mr Van Gogh somewhere, my father said” “he lived in a wooden bungalow…an integration of rust and exposed wood…the garden was full of docks and fennel” “The glass interior of Mr Van Gogh’s home was an interplay of light and colour…glass winking as jewelled eyes from a pit” “The dozer driver’s mate wore a football jersey and sandshoes” “…old fashioned clothes…a gabardine coat with concealed buttonholes…firemen braces over grey work shirts” “His hair was long and grey like his shirts” “He had “the look of a careworn lion” “He was submissive even to the least deserving” “Only those who wanted to mock him encouraged him to talk. Like Mr Souness” “On art though he would have argued with Lucifer. It was his life…it was what he was”
“My father said that Mr Van Gogh’s only problem was that he’d made a commitment to something which other people couldn’t understand”
“Mr Van Gogh didn’t appear to have anything worth stealing”
“The house collapsed like an old elephant in the drought, surrounded by so many enemies…Mr Souness kept laughing”
“It was only glass anyway”
“There’ll always be a Mr Van Gogh somewhere, my father said”
“he lived in a wooden bungalow…an integration of rust and exposed wood…the garden was full of docks and fennel”
“The glass interior of Mr Van Gogh’s home was an interplay of light and colour…glass winking as jewelled eyes from a pit”
“The dozer driver’s mate wore a football jersey and sandshoes”
“…old fashioned clothes…a gabardine coat with concealed buttonholes…firemen braces over grey work shirts”
“His hair was long and grey like his shirts”
“He had “the look of a careworn lion”
“He was submissive even to the least deserving”
“Only those who wanted to mock him encouraged him to talk. Like Mr Souness”
“On art though he would have argued with Lucifer. It was his life…it was what he was”