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00:09 – you probably know me already I'm famous
00:12 – the world over but do you know my story
00:21 – Brabant painted just as I remember it
00:24 – that's where I grew up I was different
00:28 – from the others
00:29 – stubborn always in trouble at home and
00:32 – at school things were better outdoors I
00:35 – loved being out in the fields
00:38 – do you know what you want to be yet well
00:41 – I certainly didn't I was an art dealer
00:44 – in Paris in London a teacher in England
00:47 – a priest in Belgium I tried the lot
00:49 – nothing worked out
00:52 – my brother Theo my best friend had an
00:55 – idea Vincent you're good at drawing why
00:59 – don't you do something with that well he
01:01 – was right I was always drawing and I
01:04 – could learn how to paint there was no
01:07 – time to lose
01:08 – practice practice practice I was
01:11 – unstoppable
01:12 – Anton mouthed my cousin and a famous
01:15 – artist taught me how to paint in oils I
01:19 – got my first Commission drawing
01:22 – cityscapes of the hague the train
01:24 – station what a building all that glass I
01:29 – wanted to show real-life nature the
01:33 – lives of farmers what I saw as I felt it
01:37 – that's what I wanted to paint something
01:39 – good something with soul in it and look
01:44 – there they are
01:46 – they're weather-beaten faces in the
01:48 – shadows sitting in the light of a small
01:51 – lamp poking their calloused hands into
01:53 – the dish of potatoes they themselves
01:55 – have sown and harvested others didn't
01:59 – think much of it
02:01 – woman's nose looks like dice at the end
02:03 – of a pipe stem hmm even Theo thought it
02:06 – was too dark but I had started I was an
02:10 – artist Theo I owe you so much when I
02:17 – came to Paris I lived with you when I
02:20 – wanted to paint you paid for my paints
02:22 – and brushes and me I was insufferable
02:25 – living only for my art late night
02:29 – discussions with innovative artists like
02:31 – Lautrec burn our gogo about contrasts
02:37 – colors loose brushstrokes but the work
02:42 – wasn't selling
02:43 – I rarely had money for models so I'd
02:46 – often end up looking in the mirror after
02:50 – two years I was fed up with the city
02:53 – I headed south to the light the colors
02:57 – that's where I painted the colors of the
02:59 – wheat
03:01 – of the night
03:02 – and the see which have many more colors
03:05 – than just blue
03:07 – green purple blue pink the sea changes
03:12 – color like a mackerel skin
03:16 – I looked around me and found beauty in
03:18 – almost everything
03:21 – even in these withering sunflowers
03:26 – I had big plans for this yellow house
03:30 – where I wanted to work with others to
03:32 – create a new kind of art
03:36 – but only my artist friend go gang came
03:38 – South we had the most fierce discussions
03:41 – about art what should you paint what you
03:44 – see with your eyes or what you see in
03:46 – your mind one evening things started to
03:50 – go wrong I just wasn't myself anymore I
03:54 – cut off my left ear I was sick I had
03:58 – myself admitted to hospital but I didn't
04:01 – stop I worked on like some kind of
04:03 – painting locomotive and slowly I got my
04:08 – life back on track in the countryside
04:11 – just north of Paris with Theo closeby I
04:14 – worked incessantly my head was on fire
04:17 – my paintbrush swept back and forth until
04:25 – [Music]
04:27 – now you know my story the story of a
04:32 – misunderstood stubborn man who wouldn't
04:34 – give up a story about needing to do what
04:37 – it is that you're good at so tell me
04:40 – what are you good at