A great hidden force of working and creating
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, early April 1882
When I write you, Become a painter, it isn't, after all, because I think your present position without charm of its own. But I think it is even better to be a painter, and I wish you could work in a studio of your own instead of at a desk in your office. That's it.
I am sure that there in your studio something would be roused in you that you do not know now - a great hidden force of working and creating. And this, once roused, is roused forever.
Letter 185
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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When I write you, Become a painter, it isn't, after all, because I think your present position without charm of its own. But I think it is even better to be a painter, and I wish you could work in a studio of your own instead of at a desk in your office. That's it.
I am sure that there in your studio something would be roused in you that you do not know now - a great hidden force of working and creating. And this, once roused, is roused forever.
Letter 185
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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