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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to His Parents
(c. 27 October 1883)
... feeling even better here these first days than during those
last months in The Hague, when I suffered much from my nerves.
And that is quite calmed down now. I think there is no better
place for meditation than by a rustic hearth and an old cradle
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 4 May 1888)
... is absolutely nothing doing
there.
I should very much like to look around a little myself, but
being in no way anxious to fly into a rage, I shall wait till
my nerves are steadier.
In the very letter I had addressed wrongly I again said
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh
(c. 22 June 1888)
... than put up with another flight of stairs. In
Paris I could never accustom myself to climbing stairs, and I
always had fits of dizziness in a horrible nightmare which has
left me since, but which came back regularly then.
If I should not mail... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 17 September 1888)
... or anyway you will find some opportunity.
When we have mistral down here, however, it is the exact
opposite of a sweet country, for the mistral sets one on edge.
But what compensations, what compensations when there is a day
without wind - what... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(6 October 1888)
... the first place
I am always smoking a pipe, and then I have always had an
unutterable horror of sitting like that on precipitous cliffs
verging on the sea, as I suffer from vertigo. So if that is
meant to be my portrait, I protest against the aforementioned
... | Lettre de Vincent van Gogh à Theo van Gogh
(20 May 1890)
... caractéristique et pittoresque.
J'ai vu M. le Dr Gachet, qui a fait
sur moi l'impression d'être assez excentrique, mais son expérience de
docteur doit le tenir lui-même en équilibre en combattant le mal nerveux,
duquel certes... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(20 May 1890)
... characteristic
and picturesque.
I have seen Dr. Gachet, who made the
impression on me of being rather eccentric, but his experience as a doctor must keep him
balanced while fighting the nervous trouble from which he
certainly seems to me to be suffering... |
