I haven't lost heart yet
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Antwerp, 28 December 1884
Well, you can see that I am working with a will. If I could sell something so that I could earn a bit more, I should work even harder.
As for Portier - I haven't lost heart yet - but poverty is dogging my steps and at present all dealers are suffering a little from the same defect, that of being more or less "a people withdrawn from society" - they are so much sunk in gloom that how is one really to feel inspired to go grubbing about in all that indifference and apathy - the more so as the disease is contagious.
For it's just a lot of nonsense that business is slack, one has to work even so with self-confidence and enthusiasm, in short with some zeal.
Letter 442
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
Well, you can see that I am working with a will. If I could sell something so that I could earn a bit more, I should work even harder.
As for Portier - I haven't lost heart yet - but poverty is dogging my steps and at present all dealers are suffering a little from the same defect, that of being more or less "a people withdrawn from society" - they are so much sunk in gloom that how is one really to feel inspired to go grubbing about in all that indifference and apathy - the more so as the disease is contagious.
For it's just a lot of nonsense that business is slack, one has to work even so with self-confidence and enthusiasm, in short with some zeal.
Letter 442
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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