"”To me, van Gogh is the finest painter of them all; certainly the most popular great painter of all time: The most beloved; his command of colour, the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world… no one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived."
- Richard Curtis, from the Doctor Who script “Vincent and The Doctor” describing the life and the body of work of Vincent Van Gogh.
Idris: I’ve been looking for a word. A big, complicated word but so sad. I’ve found it now.
The Doctor: What word?
Idris: “Alive.” I’m alive.
The Doctor: Alive isn’t sad.
Idris: It’s sad when it’s over.
~From the Neil Gaiman penned episode of Doctor Who entitled ”The Doctor’s Wife”
