This long period of drudgery
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, c. 23-28 June 1883
It is true that I have written you often lately, but my letters harp so much on the same thing that I am angry with myself for not writing you in a somewhat more amusing way. It will come back someday - I think that when you have been in the studio again, there will be more animating subjects to write about. At least I hope so, and there will be, if you feel sympathy for what I am doing and what you have not yet seen. . . .
Right now I am working on no less than seven or eight drawings of about a meter in size, so you can imagine that I am up to my ears in work.
But I hope so much that my hand will become more skillful from this long period of drudgery.
Letter 296
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
It is true that I have written you often lately, but my letters harp so much on the same thing that I am angry with myself for not writing you in a somewhat more amusing way. It will come back someday - I think that when you have been in the studio again, there will be more animating subjects to write about. At least I hope so, and there will be, if you feel sympathy for what I am doing and what you have not yet seen. . . .
Right now I am working on no less than seven or eight drawings of about a meter in size, so you can imagine that I am up to my ears in work.
But I hope so much that my hand will become more skillful from this long period of drudgery.
Letter 296
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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