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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 January 1883)
... more, and then
we can talk about the future. You know well enough how unfit I
am to cope with either dealers or art lovers, and how contrary
it is to my nature. I should like it so much if we could always
continue as we are now, but it often makes me sad... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 20-24 February 1883)
... more
readily than I had expected.
If one had to deal with people only inside the studio! But
personally I cannot get on well with people outside of it, and
cannot get them to do anything.
I've been drawing a few figures, rather large-size, bust... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 15 May 1884)
... in her Bath chair to see my new studio.
Recently I have been getting on better with people here than
I did at first, which is of great importance to me, for one
decidedly needs some distraction, and if one feels too lonely,
the work always suffers from it;... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 7 December 1884)
... received specially for St. Nicholas.
I will begin by telling you that your letter greatly amazed
me - seeing that there have been no differences of any
importance between Father, Mother and myself, and as to the
Begemann ladies, they looked in on Father and... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(2nd half June 1885)
... this as far as certain
others are concerned. I let people say of me and think of me
whatever they like and treat me just as they like -
that is their business; I am not obligated to listen to their
everlasting drivel. My parents, my teachers, Messrs. Goupil
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(2nd half June 1885)
... shaken” a second time.
I have had the very same kind of trouble for a great number
of years with a great number of people. When I protested
against it once in a while and said that I didn't deserve it,
things got worse and worse, and they wouldn't... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 11 April 1888)
... have some from here, and the
best at that. Oh! It seems to me more and more that
people are the root of everything, and though it will
always be a melancholy thought that you yourself are not in
real life, I mean, that it's more worth while to work in flesh
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(23 June 1888)
... be very grateful if
you could send it to me. The carelessness, the lazy
happy-go-lucky ways of the people here are beyond belief; you
have trouble getting the most trifling things. That is why I'll
have to go to Marseilles someday, to get what I want there.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 February 1889)
... etc., that we are producing something.
As for the little yellow house, when I paid my rent the
landlord's agent was very kind and behaved like an
Arlésien, treating me as an equal.
So I told him that I had no need of a lease, nor of a
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