It is not yet the real thing
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 9 September 1882
How many difficulties have to be overcome before one can express something, but those very difficulties are the stimulus. . . .
I feel such creative power in myself that I know for sure that the time will arrive when, so to speak, I shall regularly make something good every day.
But very rarely a day passes that I do not make something, though it is not yet the real thing I want to make.
Well, sometimes it seems to me that I might soon become productive. I would not be at all surprised if it should happen someday.
Letter 229
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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How many difficulties have to be overcome before one can express something, but those very difficulties are the stimulus. . . .
I feel such creative power in myself that I know for sure that the time will arrive when, so to speak, I shall regularly make something good every day.
But very rarely a day passes that I do not make something, though it is not yet the real thing I want to make.
Well, sometimes it seems to me that I might soon become productive. I would not be at all surprised if it should happen someday.
Letter 229
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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