At last I myself feel calmer
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Saint-Remy, 15 December 1889
I think that probably I shall hardly do any more things in impasto; it is the result of the quiet, secluded life that I am leading, and I am all the better for it. Fundamentally I am not so violent as all that, and at last I myself feel calmer.
You tell me not to worry too much and that better days will yet come for me. I must tell you that these better days have already begun for me, as soon as I get a glimpse of the possibility of completing my work in some way or other, so that you would have a series of really sympathetic Provencal studies, which will somehow be linked, I hope, with our distant memories of our youth in Holland.
Letter 617
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I think that probably I shall hardly do any more things in impasto; it is the result of the quiet, secluded life that I am leading, and I am all the better for it. Fundamentally I am not so violent as all that, and at last I myself feel calmer.
You tell me not to worry too much and that better days will yet come for me. I must tell you that these better days have already begun for me, as soon as I get a glimpse of the possibility of completing my work in some way or other, so that you would have a series of really sympathetic Provencal studies, which will somehow be linked, I hope, with our distant memories of our youth in Holland.
Letter 617
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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