Painting is more than enough
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Antwerp, 28 December 1884
You may well find it difficult to imagine, but it is a fact - when I receive the money my greatest craving will not be for food, though I shall have been fasting, but even more so for painting - and I shall immediately go on a hunt for models and continue until all the money has gone. Meanwhile what will be keeping me going is my breakfast with the people where I live, and a cup of coffee and some bread in the cremerie in the evening. Supplemented, when I can, by a second cup of coffee and bread in the cremerie for my supper or else some rye bread I keep in my trunk. As long as I am painting that is more than enough, but when my models have left, a feeling of weakness does come over me.
Letter 442
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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You may well find it difficult to imagine, but it is a fact - when I receive the money my greatest craving will not be for food, though I shall have been fasting, but even more so for painting - and I shall immediately go on a hunt for models and continue until all the money has gone. Meanwhile what will be keeping me going is my breakfast with the people where I live, and a cup of coffee and some bread in the cremerie in the evening. Supplemented, when I can, by a second cup of coffee and bread in the cremerie for my supper or else some rye bread I keep in my trunk. As long as I am painting that is more than enough, but when my models have left, a feeling of weakness does come over me.
Letter 442
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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