Things that have soul in them
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 11 September 1882
I love to make those sketches in the street, and as I wrote you in my last letter, I certainly want to reach a sort of perfection in it.
Do you know an American magazine called Harper's Monthly? There are wonderful sketches in it. I myself know it only slightly. I have seen only six numbers, and possess but three of them. But there are things in it which strike me dumb with admiration, including “Glassworks” and “Foundry,” all scenes from factories. And also sketches of a Quaker town in the olden days by Howard Pyle. I am full of new pleasure in those things, because I have new hope of making things that have soul in them myself.
Letter 230
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I love to make those sketches in the street, and as I wrote you in my last letter, I certainly want to reach a sort of perfection in it.
Do you know an American magazine called Harper's Monthly? There are wonderful sketches in it. I myself know it only slightly. I have seen only six numbers, and possess but three of them. But there are things in it which strike me dumb with admiration, including “Glassworks” and “Foundry,” all scenes from factories. And also sketches of a Quaker town in the olden days by Howard Pyle. I am full of new pleasure in those things, because I have new hope of making things that have soul in them myself.
Letter 230
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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