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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 17 February 1889)
... My dear Theo,
I have been so completely out of sorts mentally that it
would have been useless to try to write an answer to your kind
letter. Today I have just come home provisionally, I hope for
good. I feel quite normal so often, and really I should think
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 22 February 1889)
... Gauguin has finished some lithographs.
I agree with what you say, that if it takes a more serious
turn someday, I must do what the doctors say and not oppose it.
But that may be neither tomorrow nor the next day.
Now it is not uncommon, it seems, to... | Letter from Reverend Salles to Theo van Gogh
(18 March 1889)
... anybody and I am not dangerous to anyone.
He understands, that goes without saying, that he has had a
bout of insanity and this thought grieves and revolts him at the same
time. I told him that, once he is completely recovered, he must agree that it
would... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(19 March 1889)
... only complicate
and confuse things.
All the more because you will understand that, while I am
absolutely calm at the present moment, I may easily relapse
into a state of overexcitement on account of fresh mental
emotion.
So you understand what... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 22 March 1889)
... me the right to go out into the town.
As far as I can judge, I am not properly speaking a madman.
You will see that the canvases I have done in the intervals are
steady and not inferior to the others. I miss the work
more than it tires me.
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(24 March 1889)
... to
theirs, but I do say parallel.
And that is what the first and last cause of my aberration
was. Do you know those words of a Dutch poet's - “Ik ben
aan d'aard gehecht met meer dan aardse banden”? [I am
attached to the earth by more than earthly... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(26 March 1889)
... which often has to be of a petty nature.
Summarizing, I emphatically assure you that I found him in a
condition of perfect health and sanity. There is only one thing
he wishes - to be able to work in tranquillity. So do your best
to grant him this happiness.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(29 March 1889)
... to give them my very best
regards.
These last three months do seem so strange to me. Sometimes
moods of indescribable mental anguish, sometimes moments when
the veil of time and the fatality of circumstances seemed to be
torn apart for an instant.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Paul Signac
(c. 10 April 1889)
... character of the seaside scenery there.
Since your visit my head has just about returned to its
normal state, and for the time being I desire nothing better
than that this will last. Above all it will depend on a very
sober way of living.
I intend... |
