“What's the use?”
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 1 November 1882
Perhaps you think this tedious - but it all came fresh into my thoughts again. I had collected and mounted my hundred studies, and when I had finished the job, a rather melancholy feeling of "what's the use?" came over me. But then those energetic words of Herkomer's, urging the public not to flag and saying that it is more necessary than ever to keep the hand to the plough, comforted me so, and I thought I would give you a short summary of what he said.
Letter 240
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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Perhaps you think this tedious - but it all came fresh into my thoughts again. I had collected and mounted my hundred studies, and when I had finished the job, a rather melancholy feeling of "what's the use?" came over me. But then those energetic words of Herkomer's, urging the public not to flag and saying that it is more necessary than ever to keep the hand to the plough, comforted me so, and I thought I would give you a short summary of what he said.
Letter 240
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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