If I could sometimes consult you
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 29 October 1882
I often long for you, as I already wrote you. If I saw you more often, and if I could speak to you about my work, I should make more things, which I am sure might proceed from the studies I have. But you remember that not long ago I wrote you (when sending you a sketch in color of a potato market), “I must try to paint the bustle of the streets again.” The result if this is about twelve watercolors which I am doing right now, so I do not want to say that I cannot do anything with my studies or that I make them without a definite purpose, but only that I believe I could do more with them and make them more directly effective if I could sometimes consult you about it.
Letter 239
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
I often long for you, as I already wrote you. If I saw you more often, and if I could speak to you about my work, I should make more things, which I am sure might proceed from the studies I have. But you remember that not long ago I wrote you (when sending you a sketch in color of a potato market), “I must try to paint the bustle of the streets again.” The result if this is about twelve watercolors which I am doing right now, so I do not want to say that I cannot do anything with my studies or that I make them without a definite purpose, but only that I believe I could do more with them and make them more directly effective if I could sometimes consult you about it.
Letter 239
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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