van Gogh's letters - unabridged and annotated
 
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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(30 March 1874)
... to hear that you are doing so well. You have done well to read the book by Burger; you should devour books on art as much as possible, especially The Gazette de Beaux-Arts, etc. By all means try to get a good knowledge of pictures. That picture by...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(4 September 1875)
... please include it with yours. I have bought the book about Michel, with etchings after his pictures; as soon as I have finished it, I will send it to you. Yet Michel is not nearly so beautiful as the landscape described in Adam Bede which impressed us both...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 2 or 3 November 1882)
... superfluous to write more about it. But I can hardly say that I share your thought which you express in the following words: “To me it seems quite natural that the desired change will occur.” Just think how many great men are dead or will not...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(2nd half March 1884)
... self-righteousness in religion. My strongest sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are with those artists in whom I see the soul at work most strongly - Israëls, for example, is clever as a technician, but so is Vollon - but I...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(15-17 December 1884)
... too. But first I must paint them. Now just listen - do you remember how in the very beginning I always spoke to you about my great respect and sympathy for the work of Father de Groux? Of late I think of him more than ever. One must not confront him ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 13-17 April 1885)
... Dear Theo Enclosed you will find some interesting pages about colour, namely the great principles which Delacroix believed in. Add to this “les anciens ne prenaient pas par la ligne, mais par les milieux,” that means, starting with ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(4 or 5 May 1885)
... Because I believe this, I send it to you. Be sure, however, that I greatly admire things in the Salon number like “The Lark” by Jules Breton, Roll's picture, also the Fantin Latour, also “The Coast of Cornwall,” Vernier and some others....
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early May 1885)
... to observe daily. Well, goodbye. Understand me well - I do not say that Millet didn't use white when he painted snow, but I mean that he and the other tonists could have done so if they had wanted to, in the same way as Delacroix tells that Paul Veronese...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 11 May 1885)
... very busy these days, drawing figures. Thanks also for the copy of Le Temps you sent, with the article about the Salon by Paul Mantz. I haven't read such a good article in a long time. I think it very good - the beginning - the picture of those Laplanders,...

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