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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 May 1888)
... and others would not do so much.
As for me, it worries me to spend so much money on myself
alone, but the only way to remedy it is for me to find a woman
with money, or some fellows who will join me to paint
pictures.
I don't see the woman, but I do... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 15 June 1888)
... up against reality to
become facts.
I do not want to discuss Gauguin's project, having once
thought the situation over this winter - you know the result.
You know that I think a Society of Impressionists would be
something of the same nature as the Society... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(21 June 1888)
... there is the
following passage in the letter: “I insist that,
supposing the capital is got together, or half of it got
together, your brother will exert his powers to lead the
enterprise to success, and will be its director.” I know
quite... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(29 June 1888)
... be
winter in the North in four months. And it seems so certain to
me that two people doing precisely the same work ought, if
circumstances prevent them spending more, to be able to live at
home on bread, wine, and anything in short that you'd want to
add.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 7 July 1888)
... they will be criticized as hasty.
I know also that I hope to stick to my argument of this
winter, when we were talking about an association of artists.
Not that I still have any great desire for it or hope to
realize it, but as it was seriously thought... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 17 July 1888)
... colour
and the logical composition.
My dear friend Bernard, by collaboration I did not
mean to say that I think two or more painters would have to
work on the same pictures. What I was driving at was paintings
that differ from one another yet go together... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 13 August 1888)
... handshake.
Ever yours, Vincent
With regard to Gauguin, however much we appreciate him, I
think that we must behave like the mother of a family and
calculate the actual expenses. If one listened to him, one
would go on hoping for something vague in the... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 18 August 1888)
... and the 100-fr. note
enclosed.
And it's very good of you to promise the two of us, Gauguin
and me, that you'll put us in the way to carrying out our
combination.
I have just had a letter from Bernard, who went some days
ago to join Gauguin,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 September 1888)
... at the bullfight and outside the
town. We talked more seriously about the plan, that if I keep a
place in the south, he ought to set up a sort of post among the
collieries. Then Gauguin and I and he, if the importance of a
picture made it worth the journey, could... |
