From within myself
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 1 May 1882
But I say to myself that it's better to do it in a year than to do it now, because I do not want the beauty to come from the material, but from within myself. When I am a little more advanced I shall occasionally dress up nicely - that means I shall work with a more effective drawing material. And then if only I have some power within me, things will go doubly smoothly and the result will be better than I expected.
But before any success there must first come the hand-to-hand struggle with the things in nature.
Letter 195
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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But I say to myself that it's better to do it in a year than to do it now, because I do not want the beauty to come from the material, but from within myself. When I am a little more advanced I shall occasionally dress up nicely - that means I shall work with a more effective drawing material. And then if only I have some power within me, things will go doubly smoothly and the result will be better than I expected.
But before any success there must first come the hand-to-hand struggle with the things in nature.
Letter 195
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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