Van Gogh: "I Wasn’t Painting What You Think"

Vincent Van Gogh reflects on perception, emotion, and the quiet tension between what is seen and what is felt.This imagined conversation explores not just his paintings, but the way he experienced the world — a reality shaped as much by feeling as by sight.In this episode, Van Gogh speaks about colour as language, solitude as space, and painting as a way to give form to something that could not be explained.From Arles to Saint-Rémy, through letters, silence, and moments of clarity, this is a portrait of a man who did not simply observe the world, but interpreted it.This episode is part of the Get to Know… series — imagined conversations with history’s most influential minds, created for reflection rather than simple explanation. Get to know history’s greatest minds — one conversation at a time