One would like to have the company of a friend
I have been feeling very weak lately. I am afraid I have been overworking myself, and how miserable the “dregs” of the work are, that depression after overexertion. Life is then the colour of dishwater; it becomes something like an ash heap.
On such a day one would like to have the company of a friend. That sometimes clears up the leaden mist.
On such days I am sometimes terribly worried about the future and am melancholy about my work, and feel quite helpless.
But it is dangerous to speak or think too much about it, so enough of it.
To Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 3 February 1883, Letter 263
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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On such a day one would like to have the company of a friend. That sometimes clears up the leaden mist.
On such days I am sometimes terribly worried about the future and am melancholy about my work, and feel quite helpless.
But it is dangerous to speak or think too much about it, so enough of it.
To Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 3 February 1883, Letter 263
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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