Like any laborer
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 4-12 May 1882
You know what I want: just enough to live on, but I don't care for more than that. What I should like best would be to have fixed weekly wages, like any laborer, for which I should work with all my strength and energy.
Being a laborer, I feel at home in the laboring class, and more and more I will try to live and take root there.
I cannot do otherwise, I do not want to do otherwise, I cannot understand any other way.
Letter 194
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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You know what I want: just enough to live on, but I don't care for more than that. What I should like best would be to have fixed weekly wages, like any laborer, for which I should work with all my strength and energy.
Being a laborer, I feel at home in the laboring class, and more and more I will try to live and take root there.
I cannot do otherwise, I do not want to do otherwise, I cannot understand any other way.
Letter 194
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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