A little outside the ordinary rules
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 15-17 June 1883
I adopted the manner of some English artists, without thinking of imitating them, but probably because I am attracted by the same kinds of things in nature; they are reproduced by relatively few, so that if one wants to make them, one must seek a way to express what one feels and venture a little outside the ordinary rules to render them exactly as one wants. (Like Rappard, whose drawing had all kinds of machines in action, which hardly anybody else would think of attacking, and which are not at all what one is accustomed to calling picturesque.)
Letter 294
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I adopted the manner of some English artists, without thinking of imitating them, but probably because I am attracted by the same kinds of things in nature; they are reproduced by relatively few, so that if one wants to make them, one must seek a way to express what one feels and venture a little outside the ordinary rules to render them exactly as one wants. (Like Rappard, whose drawing had all kinds of machines in action, which hardly anybody else would think of attacking, and which are not at all what one is accustomed to calling picturesque.)
Letter 294
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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