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EC: Oh, he's not mad. Everyone else might be, but... (both laugh)...he is the sanest person I have ever seen except that moment when he cut off his ear and took it to a prostitute. He comes across as kind and compassionate and he is not worried what other painters think of him.


RB: Really?


EC: It pains him but in his letters to his brother...it's not that he doesn't get depressed about it, but in those letters you see how it doesn't stop him. It doesn't stop his vision that he wants. The world told him not to paint the peasants, he doesn't stop painting peasants. It saddens him that no one sees what he is doing, but his vision stayed clear.