Dore Schary: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Dore Schary, Himself : This is one of the world's most famous paintings. It was painted in 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh. If it were for sale today, the price would be a quarter of a million dollars. How much did he sell it for? He couldn't give it away.

• Dore Schary, Himself : A field of wheat. Here in these fields, Vincent painted his last canvas. And here, thinking himself a failure, for he had sold only one of his hundreds of paintings, Vincent suffered another and final attack. And here he ended his life, without ever knowing that he had successfully completed his lonely journey from: Darkness Into Light.

• Dore Schary, Himself : [final lines]  This is one of the world's most famous paintings. How much is it worth? In terms of money a quarter of a million dollars. In terms of the joy it has given millions of people, its value is beyond estimate. And it bears the immortal identity: Vincent.