Which famous artist ate yellow paint?

During his periodic bouts of madness, Van Gogh would sometimes try to eat his oil paints, which his attendants at the asylum where he was then staying would temporarily have to confiscate. One should not make too much of this, or of what colors he supposedly preferred. read more

“Everyone has their yellow paint.” The story goes that Vincent Van Gogh (the poster person for tortured artists, right beside Edgar Allen Poe) ate yellow paint thinking that consuming it would paint his insides bright and yellow and therefore make him happy. read more