"The excellent always escapes them"
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Nuenen, September 1884
Just listen, Theo, as to that barricade, you know there was a time in my life when I also stood with the Guizots, etc.
But as soon as I had enough of it, you know how I turned away with energy and persistence.
The younger people now do not want me, however; all right, I don't care; as men, and as painters, I like the generation of about '48 better than those of '84; but from those of '48, not the Guizots, but the revolutionaries, Michelet - and also the peasant painters of Barbizon. . . .
I believe that Millet and Daumier were ignored by practically all art dealers. Once an art lover said of the way the dealers acted with Corot's studies the excellent always escapes them. And this remark is shrewd.
Letter 380
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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Just listen, Theo, as to that barricade, you know there was a time in my life when I also stood with the Guizots, etc.
But as soon as I had enough of it, you know how I turned away with energy and persistence.
The younger people now do not want me, however; all right, I don't care; as men, and as painters, I like the generation of about '48 better than those of '84; but from those of '48, not the Guizots, but the revolutionaries, Michelet - and also the peasant painters of Barbizon. . . .
I believe that Millet and Daumier were ignored by practically all art dealers. Once an art lover said of the way the dealers acted with Corot's studies the excellent always escapes them. And this remark is shrewd.
Letter 380
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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