Risk too much rather than too little
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Drenthe, 17 November 1883
Fortune favors the bold, says the proverb, and though something may perhaps be said against it, I decidedly believe its basis to be a fact, in the same way as the opposite: that moral weakness or want of courage brings a kind of fatal doom in the end.
So my plan is always to risk too much rather than too little; if one is defeated by too much, well, so be it.
Letter 341
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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Fortune favors the bold, says the proverb, and though something may perhaps be said against it, I decidedly believe its basis to be a fact, in the same way as the opposite: that moral weakness or want of courage brings a kind of fatal doom in the end.
So my plan is always to risk too much rather than too little; if one is defeated by too much, well, so be it.
Letter 341
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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