The more one loves
Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard, from The Hague, c. 8 May 1883
I just can't believe that a painter should have no other task and no other duty than painting only. What I mean to say is, whereas many consider, for instance, reading books and such things that they call a waste of time, on the contrary, I am of the opinion that, far from causing one to work less or less well, rather it makes one work more and better to try to broaden one's mind in a field that is so closely allied with this work - and that at any rate it is a matter of importance, which greatly influences one's work, from whatever point of view one looks at things, and whatever conception one may have of life.
I believe that the more one loves, the more one will act; for love that is only a feeling I would never recognize as love.
Letter R34
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I just can't believe that a painter should have no other task and no other duty than painting only. What I mean to say is, whereas many consider, for instance, reading books and such things that they call a waste of time, on the contrary, I am of the opinion that, far from causing one to work less or less well, rather it makes one work more and better to try to broaden one's mind in a field that is so closely allied with this work - and that at any rate it is a matter of importance, which greatly influences one's work, from whatever point of view one looks at things, and whatever conception one may have of life.
I believe that the more one loves, the more one will act; for love that is only a feeling I would never recognize as love.
Letter R34
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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