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

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"

essentially the dude seems to be saying "me and my generation are fucking terrible parents"

"i was only able to instil a sense of decency and concern for others in my children through the liberal application of assault"

"remember back in the 19th century when you could legally murder your children after they got home from a 12 hour factory shift and there was no crime whatsoever?"

"my education consisted entirely of south park dvds"

"which explains my reactionary politics"

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mag33iq79J1qbfwh1o1_400.jpg

a product of old-school parenting, earlier today

probably not clipped round the ear by coppers tbf

straya mate

lol xpost

australia sounds awesome, my wife and i had the conversation of what if we moved to australia

protip avoid earclipping by clipping yr ears

thank god mum beat the shit out of us. so glad that happened or we would have been overrun by asians & abos & poofters can you imagine god we were lucky in those days I tell ya

fucking immigrants, it's like nobody here speaks woiwurrung any more

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/552619_561133243939459_1100351143_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/60752_493477840732758_584593745_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/999155_10151742416241211_1613841415_n.jpg

from the basement you've been hiding them in for the past 20 years

https://sphotos-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/996871_600655643300092_533679994_n.jpg

I feel like people who get really hung up on that idea tend to be slightly self-absorbed.

I feel like no one googled Osho before reposting this

O shi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho_(Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh)#Jewish_.22Guilt.22.2C_the_Holocaust.2C_and_the_Gas_Chambers.27_.22Holy_Smoke.22

Yeah, the following few parts are not that great

what a dickhead

hippy in bullshit shockah. But yeah pretty beyond the pale.

what the shit

Hitler "killed people in the most up-to-date gas chambers, where you don’t take much time. Thousands of people can be put in a gas chamber, and just a switch is pressed. (…) Within a second, you evaporate.

Ummmmmmmmm

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_attack

hippy in bullshit shockah. But yeah pretty beyond the pale.

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