Calm neglect
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Nuenen, April 1884
But I shall not bore you with this. If you want to divide art - by drawing sharp, straight, rigid lines - into things that one may show in the full light of day and things that one should calmly neglect with great singleness of purpose - well, that's your affair.
And at the moment the whole question is so deeply repulsive to me that I for my part will not expiate on it.
Letter 365
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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But I shall not bore you with this. If you want to divide art - by drawing sharp, straight, rigid lines - into things that one may show in the full light of day and things that one should calmly neglect with great singleness of purpose - well, that's your affair.
And at the moment the whole question is so deeply repulsive to me that I for my part will not expiate on it.
Letter 365
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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