The public’s hands
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 14 November 1882
I don't think it improbable that some time I shall make things which will come into the public's hands, but it leaves me rather cold, and I don't consider it a pleasure at all.
Two reasons would force me to it. In the first place, if I became employed by a magazine, then of course I should have to do what is required. In the second place - something which may come later, but which I have certainly thought about already - if sooner or later I should have something which forms a whole and has a purpose and expresses something, I would certainly publish it . . . .
Such a thing would probably cost me money rather than bring money in; it would be for art's sake, not primarily for profit.
Letter 244
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I don't think it improbable that some time I shall make things which will come into the public's hands, but it leaves me rather cold, and I don't consider it a pleasure at all.
Two reasons would force me to it. In the first place, if I became employed by a magazine, then of course I should have to do what is required. In the second place - something which may come later, but which I have certainly thought about already - if sooner or later I should have something which forms a whole and has a purpose and expresses something, I would certainly publish it . . . .
Such a thing would probably cost me money rather than bring money in; it would be for art's sake, not primarily for profit.
Letter 244
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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