Nothing but routine
Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard, from Nuenen, June 1885
What I said and will say again is - that all too often the word "technique" is used in a conventional sense, that all too often it is not used in good faith. People are praising the technique of all those Italians and Spaniards, and they are men who are more conventional, who have to a greater extent nothing but routine, than anybody else - and I am afraid that with such fellows as Haverman the metier so soon changes into a routine. And then what is it worth?
What I want to ask you now is, What is the real reason you have broken with me?
The reason I am writing you again is just my love for Millet, for Breton and for all those who paint peasants and the common people, and I count you among them.
Letter R52
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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What I said and will say again is - that all too often the word "technique" is used in a conventional sense, that all too often it is not used in good faith. People are praising the technique of all those Italians and Spaniards, and they are men who are more conventional, who have to a greater extent nothing but routine, than anybody else - and I am afraid that with such fellows as Haverman the metier so soon changes into a routine. And then what is it worth?
What I want to ask you now is, What is the real reason you have broken with me?
The reason I am writing you again is just my love for Millet, for Breton and for all those who paint peasants and the common people, and I count you among them.
Letter R52
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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