If we could talk things over

Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 11 March 1883

When you say that you sometimes wish we could talk together more, about a variety of things in art, I for my part have that longing continually, and sometimes very strongly.

So often I should like to know your opinion about this or that, about some studies, etc., for instance, if they might be of some use, or if it would be advisable, for some reason or other, to go more deeply into them.

So often I should like to have some more information about things on which you are better informed than I, and I should like to know more about the state of things, I mean what kind of work the painters are producing. . . .

And just now, owing to a piling up of studies, it would be worth a great deal to me if we could talk things over together.

Letter 274
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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