As you are, so you paint
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Drenthe, 29 October 1883
I am so deeply convinced of your artistic talent that to me you will be an artist as soon as you take up a brush or a piece of crayon and, adroitly or maladroitly, make something.
Before you are able to express yourself, that is, your plain-thinking virile soul - peaceful, good - before you can express this in your work, quite a lot of things must happen; but it will come, for as you are, so you paint - not in the beginning, assuredly, if one is good.
Letter 339a
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I am so deeply convinced of your artistic talent that to me you will be an artist as soon as you take up a brush or a piece of crayon and, adroitly or maladroitly, make something.
Before you are able to express yourself, that is, your plain-thinking virile soul - peaceful, good - before you can express this in your work, quite a lot of things must happen; but it will come, for as you are, so you paint - not in the beginning, assuredly, if one is good.
Letter 339a
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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