Patience and faithfulness
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 11 March 1883
Be clear in your mind, dear brother, how strongly and intensely I feel the enormous debt I owe you for your faithful help.
It would be difficult for me to express all my thoughts about it. It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner's work; it doesn't advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.
Letter 274
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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Be clear in your mind, dear brother, how strongly and intensely I feel the enormous debt I owe you for your faithful help.
It would be difficult for me to express all my thoughts about it. It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner's work; it doesn't advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.
Letter 274
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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