An adventurer by fate
Vincent van Gogh to Horace M. Livens, from Paris, August-October 1886
But for the present things are awfully hard. Therefore let anyone who risks to go over here consider there is no laying on roses at all.
What is to be gained is progress and what the deuce that is, it is to be found here. I dare say as certain anyone who has a solid position elsewhere let him stay where he is. But for adventurers as myself, I think they lose nothing in risking more. Especially as in my case I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate, and feeling nowhere so much myself a stranger as in my family and country.
Letter 459a
Written in English.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
But for the present things are awfully hard. Therefore let anyone who risks to go over here consider there is no laying on roses at all.
What is to be gained is progress and what the deuce that is, it is to be found here. I dare say as certain anyone who has a solid position elsewhere let him stay where he is. But for adventurers as myself, I think they lose nothing in risking more. Especially as in my case I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate, and feeling nowhere so much myself a stranger as in my family and country.
Letter 459a
Written in English.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home