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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 20 May 1888)
... to do with the
feeling of collapse? Remember how last winter I was stupefied
to the point of being absolutely incapable of doing anything at
all, except a little painting, although I was not taking any
iodide of potassium. So if I were you, I should... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 20 May 1888)
... On top of all that I am working on new studies. And in the
evening I was often too beat to write. That's why my answer has
been delayed.
Listen, that sonnet about the women of the boulevard has
some good in it, but it isn't the real thing, the end... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(23 June 1888)
... the frame. Ah, what an inspired conception!
I would do a sketch of it for you, but because I've been
drawing and painting a model - a Zouave - for three or four
days now, I am all in. Writing, on the other hand, calms and
diverts me.
What I've been... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(24 June 1888)
... the enclosed sheet bearing on your last sonnet. The
fact is that I am so worn out by work that in the evening,
though writing is restful for me, I am like a machine out of
gear, so much, on the other hand, has a day spent in the full
sun tired me out. That's... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(29 June 1888)
... possible
when I'm retouching.
But when I come home after a spell like that, I assure you
my head is so tired that if that kind of work keeps recurring,
as it has done since this harvest began, I become hopelessly
absent-minded and incapable of heaps... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 19 July 1888)
... your letter, which gave me great pleasure,
arriving just exactly at the moment when I was still dazed with
the sun and the strain of wrestling with a rather big
canvas.
I have a new drawing of a garden full of flowers , and two painted studies
as... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 23 July 1888)
... oleander flower in the sweet little hand . It
has exhausted me so much that I am hardly in a fit state to
write. Goodbye for now, and once more many thanks,
Ever yours, Vincent
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 18 August 1888)
... other things.
Thanks for your letter. This time I am writing in a great
hurry and greatly exhausted.
I am very pleased you have joined Gauguin.
Ah! I have another figure all the same which is an absolute
continuation of certain studies of heads... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(13 October 1888)
... man would work with greater regularity.
I am really falling asleep and I can't see any more, my eyes
are so tired.
Good-by for the present, because I still have a lot to say,
and I must make you some better sketches. I shall probably make
them... |
