Vincent van Gogh wrote his brother, Theo often.
You can find many of his letters at the site
van Gogh's letter: unabridged and annotated.
You can find many of his letters at the site
van Gogh's letter: unabridged and annotated.
"I'd like to walk with you there to find out
whether we look at things the same way."
"In life and in painting too,
I can easily do without the dear Lord,
but I can't, suffering as I do,
do without something greater than myself,
which is my life, the power to create."
“What am I in the eyes of most people —
a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person —
somebody who has no position in society and will never have;
in short, the lowest of the low.
All right, then —
even if that were absolutely true,
then I should one day like to show
by my work what such an eccentric,
such a nobody, has in his heart."
"... find things beautiful as much as you can,
most people find too little beautiful."
“I also believe that it may happen
that one succeeds and
one mustn't begin by despairing;
even if one loses here and there,
and even if one sometimes feels a sort of decline,
the point is nevertheless to revive and
have courage, even though things don't
turn out as one first thought.”
that one succeeds and
one mustn't begin by despairing;
even if one loses here and there,
and even if one sometimes feels a sort of decline,
the point is nevertheless to revive and
have courage, even though things don't
turn out as one first thought.”
*Images are photographs taken at the
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I like the third in particular although all are meaningful and insightful. He was much more than just a painter.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw the exhibit, his words surprised me. I had no idea.
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