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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard (c. 1 March 1884) ... But let's stop harping on the subject.
I repeat that my idea about my drawings, and the reason I
asked you to show them to people if you have a chance, is based
on circumstances which are to a great extent not my fault - I
am reproached quite often with “not... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 11 March 1884) ... it, than 200 francs without that freedom.
If we were more of one mind in our way of looking at things,
I should think an agreement like the one between you and me up
to now by far the best.
And because of too great a difference in our ways of looking
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard (mid March 1884) ... if you place them
against that.
As for these drawings and art shows, I am not interested in
art shows. But what I am interested in is this. I work every
day, of course - and not a week passes without my doing some
studies like these. I always consider... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard (2nd half March 1884) ... me better when I do -
no.
That doesn't alter the fact that, in my view, the reasoning
of the artless fellow who asked of your work, “Does he
paint for money?” is the reasoning of a bloody idiot,
since this intelligent creature evidently... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 1 April 1884) ... received your letter and enclosed 250 francs. If I
may consider your letter an answer to my proposal, I can indeed
agree to what you say. In short, to avoid further discussion or
quarreling, in order to have some answer when those leading
ordinary lives accuse... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (early April 1884) ... of things toward the beginning of March.
Your reply was evasive, it certainly was not
straightforward, I mean it was not something like this:
“Vincent, I see the reasonableness of a number of your
grievances, and I approve of your proposal to make an... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 1 November 1884) ... I shall be
worth more than I am now.
Then later on, when I am somewhat better off, I shall be
glad to try to give you new hints about that problem of
reforming the art trade, about which I certainly have my own
ideas, arising from my own experience with... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (2nd half June 1885) ... how to
get to the end of the month.
At times it makes me quite melancholy that the result is
always “unsaleable.”
But I go on, and harden myself against it.
Others have had to bear it too. Goodbye,
Ever yours, Vincent
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (2nd half June 1885) ... but act according to your
discretion. If I could earn something with my work, if we had
some firm ground, be it ever so little, under our feet for our
daily existence, and if then the desire to become an artist
took for you the form of, let me say, Hennebeau... |