Stick to the point
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, c. 10 October 1882
I agree with you in what you say about those small drawings, namely that the one of the little bench is done in more of an old-fashioned manner. But - I did it more or less on purpose, and will perhaps do it again sometime. . . . I believe that many artists, who are called old-fashioned now, will always remain green and fresh because their manner had, and will keep, its own raison d'être.
. . . The changes which the moderns have made in art are not always for the better; not everything means progress - neither in the works nor in the artists themselves - and often it seems to me that many lose sight of the origin and the goal, or in other words, they do not stick to the point.
Letter 238
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I agree with you in what you say about those small drawings, namely that the one of the little bench is done in more of an old-fashioned manner. But - I did it more or less on purpose, and will perhaps do it again sometime. . . . I believe that many artists, who are called old-fashioned now, will always remain green and fresh because their manner had, and will keep, its own raison d'être.
. . . The changes which the moderns have made in art are not always for the better; not everything means progress - neither in the works nor in the artists themselves - and often it seems to me that many lose sight of the origin and the goal, or in other words, they do not stick to the point.
Letter 238
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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