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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... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 21 April 1889)
... planted, whether it be good or bad.
I assure you that during those queer days when many things
seem odd to me because my brain is agitated, through it all I
don't dislike old Pangloss.
But you would do me a service by discussing the question
... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(24 April 1889)
... will be for the best, and I see no
other way. The power of thought is coming back to me gradually,
but I am much less able to manage practical things than hitherto.
I am absent-minded and could not direct my own life just now.
But let's leave that... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh
(30 April 1889)
... not far from here, for three months. I have
had in all four great crises, during which I didn't in the
least know what I said, what I wanted and what I did. Not
taking into account that I had previously had three fainting
fits without any plausible reason, and without... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2 May 1889)
... or less the same thing if I were
in the army. Now if I certainly run a great risk here of being
refused because they know that I am a madman or an epileptic
probably for good (though according to what I have heard, there
are 50,000 epileptics in France, only 4,000... |
