To make something serious
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 25 February 1882
Of course I should be very happy to sell a drawing, but I am happier still when a real artist like Weissenbruch says about an unsaleable??? study or drawing, "That is true to nature, I could work from it myself." Although money is of great value to me, especially now, the principal thing is for me to make something serious. . . .
It may take a longer or a shorter time, but the surest way is to penetrate deep into nature. "It remains to be true," Gavarni says. One may be in pecuniary difficulties for some time; but one gets over that, and then the drawings that were refused at first are sold.
Letter 177
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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Of course I should be very happy to sell a drawing, but I am happier still when a real artist like Weissenbruch says about an unsaleable??? study or drawing, "That is true to nature, I could work from it myself." Although money is of great value to me, especially now, the principal thing is for me to make something serious. . . .
It may take a longer or a shorter time, but the surest way is to penetrate deep into nature. "It remains to be true," Gavarni says. One may be in pecuniary difficulties for some time; but one gets over that, and then the drawings that were refused at first are sold.
Letter 177
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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