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He tears in two the unfair veil of pain that defines the lives of so many artists, refusing to allow us to remember them by their struggles alone. Instead, he invites us, with soft eyes and hearts, to bear witness to their bravery to triumphantly create beauty in the face of it.-- \u003cb\u003eAmy Heywood, multi-medium artist and owner of Amy Heywood Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe large questions of art are the large questions of life. Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart will help you unlock the inner secret that all great art holds--that in the end, we are all working to make peace with suffering. Russ Ramsey has presented us with a rare gift--a careful and tender book that boldly guides us to the spiritual core of some of our culture's great treasures and through them, to a better knowledge of our own ever-breaking hearts.-- \u003cb\u003ePaul J. Pastor, contributing editor for Ekstasis and author of Bower Lodge: Poems? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou approach Russ Ramsey's writings expecting to learn about art and artists, only to realize he has flung open a window to your own deepest griefs, hopes, and longings. Ramsey's essays are highly entertaining and informative, yes, but in the end they reveal themselves as hospitable invitations to get to the transcendent heart of things.-- \u003cb\u003eDouglas McKelvey, author of Every Moment Holy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou might be an art expert who can see an entire history in a Rembrandt painting, an amateur who can't tell the difference between van Gogh and Van Halen, or somewhere in between. In any case, you will find in this book the best kind of education--the kind that doesn't feel like education at all. In classic Russ Ramsey fashion, the storytelling is gripping and the insights are surprising. After reading this, you will walk into your next museum, or gaze up at the night sky outside it, with very different eyes.-- \u003cb\u003eRussell Moore, editor in chief, Christianity Today?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI learned so much about the artists in Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart that I hadn't known before--the perseverance and long-suffering of Artemisia Gentileschi or the civil rights advocacy by Norman Rockwell--but it was the way Russ Ramsey personally opened up about the paintings that allowed me to see them better. To read this book is to hover over the shoulder of Picasso, share a drink with Gauguin, and suffer heartbreak with van Gogh. You don't want it to end.-- \u003cb\u003eJessica Hooten Wilson (Ph.D., Baylor University), the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuss Ramsey \u003c\/b\u003eis an author and pastor with a passion for uniting art and faith. He has been in vocational ministry for more than twenty years and currently serves as the lead pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church's Cool Springs location. He holds an MDiv and ThM from Covenant Theological Seminary, and is the author of six books, including \u003cem\u003eRembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith\u003c\/em\u003e (Zondervan 2022), and \u003cem\u003eBehold the King of Glory\u003c\/em\u003e, recipient of the 2016 Christian Book Award for New Author. Russ was also a founding contributor and member of The Rabbit Room and is a featured speaker each year at The Rabbit Room's annual conference, Hutchmoot. 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