Feeling is a great thing
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 19 September 1882
I consider making studies like sowing, and making pictures like reaping.
I believe one gets sounder ideas when the thoughts arise from direct contact with things than when one looks at them with the set purpose of finding certain facts in them.
It is the same with the question of the color scheme. There are colors which harmonize together wonderfully, but I try my best to make it as I see it before I set to work to make it as I feel it. And yet feeling is a great thing, and without it one would not be able to do anything.
Sometimes I long for harvest time, that is, for the time when I shall be so imbued with the study of nature that I myself can create something in a picture. However, analyzing things is no trouble to me, nor is it something I dislike doing.
Letter 233
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I consider making studies like sowing, and making pictures like reaping.
I believe one gets sounder ideas when the thoughts arise from direct contact with things than when one looks at them with the set purpose of finding certain facts in them.
It is the same with the question of the color scheme. There are colors which harmonize together wonderfully, but I try my best to make it as I see it before I set to work to make it as I feel it. And yet feeling is a great thing, and without it one would not be able to do anything.
Sometimes I long for harvest time, that is, for the time when I shall be so imbued with the study of nature that I myself can create something in a picture. However, analyzing things is no trouble to me, nor is it something I dislike doing.
Letter 233
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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