One has to seek for light a long time
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Nuenen, early November 1885
I am completely absorbed in the laws of colors. If only they had taught us them in our youth!
But it is the fate of most people that by a kind of fatality one has to seek for light a long time. For, that the laws of color which Delacroix was the first to use, like Newton did for gravitation, and like Stephenson did for steam - that those laws of colors are a ray of light - is absolutely certain.
Letter 430
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I am completely absorbed in the laws of colors. If only they had taught us them in our youth!
But it is the fate of most people that by a kind of fatality one has to seek for light a long time. For, that the laws of color which Delacroix was the first to use, like Newton did for gravitation, and like Stephenson did for steam - that those laws of colors are a ray of light - is absolutely certain.
Letter 430
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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