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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(25 or 26 July 1883)
... oftener if you can, that must be
possible. I must go on with my work, but a feeling of
prostration overwhelms me again and again - a general
faintness, a reaction after exertion, which keeps returning,
and which I must try to overcome, otherwise it will get
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early July 1885)
... three-quarters of it - the children.
I must go out and work - I didn't want to put off writing
any longer; I am dog-tired every day because I have to go far,
far across the heath!
I have also done some more figures.
I am very sorry to hear... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(9 April 1888)
... like striking while the iron is hot.
I shall be all in when the orchards are over, for they are
size 25 and 30 and 20 canvases. We should not have too many of
them, even if I could knock off twice as many. It seems to me
that this may really break the... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 3 May 1888)
... and
the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural
surroundings has restored my morale, but even now some efforts
are too much for me: my strength fails me. And that was why,
when I wrote you the other day, I said that if you left the
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 20 May 1888)
... to do with the
feeling of collapse? Remember how last winter I was stupefied
to the point of being absolutely incapable of doing anything at
all, except a little painting, although I was not taking any
iodide of potassium. So if I were you, I should... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 20 May 1888)
... On top of all that I am working on new studies. And in the
evening I was often too beat to write. That's why my answer has
been delayed.
Listen, that sonnet about the women of the boulevard has
some good in it, but it isn't the real thing, the end... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(23 June 1888)
... the frame. Ah, what an inspired conception!
I would do a sketch of it for you, but because I've been
drawing and painting a model - a Zouave - for three or four
days now, I am all in. Writing, on the other hand, calms and
diverts me.
What I've been... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(24 June 1888)
... the enclosed sheet bearing on your last sonnet. The
fact is that I am so worn out by work that in the evening,
though writing is restful for me, I am like a machine out of
gear, so much, on the other hand, has a day spent in the full
sun tired me out. That's... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(29 June 1888)
... possible
when I'm retouching.
But when I come home after a spell like that, I assure you
my head is so tired that if that kind of work keeps recurring,
as it has done since this harvest began, I become hopelessly
absent-minded and incapable of heaps... |
