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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(25 February 1882)
... her during the days
of your visit.
You write about Father's birthday. I must tell you that I am
so glad to be free of it all, it gives me such a feeling of
tranquillity, something I need so much for my work. My head
cannot hold more than it does, and I... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(1-2 June 1882)
... towards and relations with my family.
Father keeps going on about the “respect and
obedience” I am supposed to owe him. I shall not claim
that a child does not owe his parents respect and obedience,
all I want is to point out that Father has taken... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(25 September 1882)
... something that gives you
pleasure.
Now I still have to tell you that quite unexpectedly I had a
very pleasant visit from Father, at my house at the studio; I
think this infinitely better than his hearing about me from
others.
If people come to see... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(17 August 1883)
... continue to
understand each other.
I have quarreled with Father very often, but the bond
between us has never quite been broken.
Well, let nature simply follow its own course in this - you
will become what you must, I too will not remain exactly... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 6-7 December 1883)
...
Nothing, nothing of all that.
In Father's mind there was not then, there is not now, the
faintest shadow of a doubt that what he did was the right
thing.
Father does not know remorse like you and me and any man who
is human.
Father believes... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 7-8 December 1883)
... that we are not well matched.
At the moment I am right under Father's nose - I see, I
hear, I feel what Father is, and I do not approve of it,
decidedly not - if you are like that and getting more and more
like it, then it would be wise to part company.... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 21 December 1883)
... my
coming here, and bitterly regretted it, because on my part I
perceived deep in the background of all the discussions I had
with Father a je ne sais quoi of cold reticence over
reconciliation, a cold evasiveness, which made me desperate
because I saw that... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 15 December 1885)
... think of me, as far as that goes.
Certainly it is regrettable that such things much happen.
But then, you see, there are certain recollections as, for
instance, that up to the last Father spoke and behaved toward
me, really, in the same way as the Roman... |
