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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 18 June 1888)
... lie in bed smoking a pipe, but which you never paint. ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh
(c. 22 June 1888)
... pipe - I live in a little yellow house with a green door and ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(23 June 1888)
My dear Bernard, You do very well to be reading the Bible. I begin with that, because I have always refrained from advising you to do so. As I read the many sayings of Moses, Luke, etc., I couldn't help thinking, you know, that's all he needs - and now it has come to pass…the artistic neurosis. For that is what the study of Christ inevitably leads to, especially in my case, where it is aggravated by the smoking of innumerable pipes. The Bible is Christ, for the Old Testament leads to that culmination. Paul and the evangelists stand on the other slope of the holy mountain. How small-minded the old story really is! My God! Does the world consist solely of Jews, who declare from the very start that all those who are different from them are impure? Why didn't the other nations under the great sun over there, the Egyptians, the Indians, the Ethiopians, Babylon and Nineveh, record their annals with the same care? Well, anyway, the study of it is beautiful, and, after all, being able to read everything would be tantamount to ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 26 September 1888)
... his pipe in peace. ... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 28 September 1888)
... from time to time, smoke one's pipe and drink one's coffee in ... |
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