I don't care for anything but the work
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 3 June 1883
Oh, boy, if we could only find somebody who would buy the drawings. The work is an absolute necessity for me. I can't put it off, I don't care for anything but the work; that is to say, the pleasure in something else ceases at once and I become melancholy when I can't go on with my work. Then I feel like a weaver who sees that his threads are tangled, and the pattern he had on the loom is gone to hell, and all his thought and exertion is lost.
Try to arrange it so that we can go on with energy.
Letter 288
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
Oh, boy, if we could only find somebody who would buy the drawings. The work is an absolute necessity for me. I can't put it off, I don't care for anything but the work; that is to say, the pleasure in something else ceases at once and I become melancholy when I can't go on with my work. Then I feel like a weaver who sees that his threads are tangled, and the pattern he had on the loom is gone to hell, and all his thought and exertion is lost.
Try to arrange it so that we can go on with energy.
Letter 288
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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