My life is too cramped and meager
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 22 July 1883
I feel my ardor vanishing, one needs to have a fixed point somewhere. When you say, "Set your hopes on the future," it sounds to me as if you yourself had no confidence in me.
Is this true? I can't help it, my spirits are low because of all these cares. I only wish you were here.
You say that the effect of the lithographs is somewhat meager. I am not in the least surprised when I think of how a man's physique influences his work, and my life is too cramped and meager. Really, Theo, we ought to have had a little more to eat for the sake of the work, but I could not afford it, and it will remain so as long as I cannot breathe a little more freely.
Letter 301
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I feel my ardor vanishing, one needs to have a fixed point somewhere. When you say, "Set your hopes on the future," it sounds to me as if you yourself had no confidence in me.
Is this true? I can't help it, my spirits are low because of all these cares. I only wish you were here.
You say that the effect of the lithographs is somewhat meager. I am not in the least surprised when I think of how a man's physique influences his work, and my life is too cramped and meager. Really, Theo, we ought to have had a little more to eat for the sake of the work, but I could not afford it, and it will remain so as long as I cannot breathe a little more freely.
Letter 301
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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