What pleases the public
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, c. 2 July 1883
I have been reading "Mes Haines" by Zola; there are good things in it, though I think he makes great mistakes - he doesn't even mention Millet in his general survey. The following is quite true: "Note that what pleases the public is always utterly banal, just what they are accustomed to seeing every year; they have got used to such insipidities, to such pretty lies that they repudiate vigorous truths with all their might."
Letter 297
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I have been reading "Mes Haines" by Zola; there are good things in it, though I think he makes great mistakes - he doesn't even mention Millet in his general survey. The following is quite true: "Note that what pleases the public is always utterly banal, just what they are accustomed to seeing every year; they have got used to such insipidities, to such pretty lies that they repudiate vigorous truths with all their might."
Letter 297
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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