van Gogh's letters - unabridged and annotated
 
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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(c. 1 March 1884)
... But let's stop harping on the subject. I repeat that my idea about my drawings, and the reason I asked you to show them to people if you have a chance, is based on circumstances which are to a great extent not my fault - I am reproached quite often with “not...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 11 March 1884)
... it, than 200 francs without that freedom. If we were more of one mind in our way of looking at things, I should think an agreement like the one between you and me up to now by far the best. And because of too great a difference in our ways of looking ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(mid March 1884)
... if you place them against that. As for these drawings and art shows, I am not interested in art shows. But what I am interested in is this. I work every day, of course - and not a week passes without my doing some studies like these. I always consider...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(2nd half March 1884)
... me better when I do - no. That doesn't alter the fact that, in my view, the reasoning of the artless fellow who asked of your work, “Does he paint for money?” is the reasoning of a bloody idiot, since this intelligent creature evidently...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 1 April 1884)
... received your letter and enclosed 250 francs. If I may consider your letter an answer to my proposal, I can indeed agree to what you say. In short, to avoid further discussion or quarreling, in order to have some answer when those leading ordinary lives accuse...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early April 1884)
... of things toward the beginning of March. Your reply was evasive, it certainly was not straightforward, I mean it was not something like this: “Vincent, I see the reasonableness of a number of your grievances, and I approve of your proposal to make an...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 1 November 1884)
... I shall be worth more than I am now. Then later on, when I am somewhat better off, I shall be glad to try to give you new hints about that problem of reforming the art trade, about which I certainly have my own ideas, arising from my own experience with...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2nd half June 1885)
... how to get to the end of the month. At times it makes me quite melancholy that the result is always “unsaleable.” But I go on, and harden myself against it. Others have had to bear it too. Goodbye, Ever yours, Vincent ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2nd half June 1885)
... but act according to your discretion. If I could earn something with my work, if we had some firm ground, be it ever so little, under our feet for our daily existence, and if then the desire to become an artist took for you the form of, let me say, Hennebeau...

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