If I could go my own way
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Antwerp, 1st half February 1886
I must also tell you that, although I keep going there, that nagging of those fellows at the academy is often almost unbearable, for they remain positively spiteful.
But I try systematically to avoid all quarrels, and go my own way. And I feel I am on the track of what I am seeking, and perhaps I should find it the sooner if I could go my own way.
Yet I irritate them even though I don't say anything; and they, me.
But this doesn't matter so much, the problem is to go on trying to find a better working method. So - patience and perseverance.
Letter 452
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I must also tell you that, although I keep going there, that nagging of those fellows at the academy is often almost unbearable, for they remain positively spiteful.
But I try systematically to avoid all quarrels, and go my own way. And I feel I am on the track of what I am seeking, and perhaps I should find it the sooner if I could go my own way.
Yet I irritate them even though I don't say anything; and they, me.
But this doesn't matter so much, the problem is to go on trying to find a better working method. So - patience and perseverance.
Letter 452
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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