Vincent van Gogh - A Portrait of a Lonely Artist Read Through Paintings and Letters
A man who, shining from the humblest places, wished to express the most human emotions exactly as they were.
I literally cannot stop. I can’t take my hands off the work, nor can I rest.
A sense of color that I had never felt before is awakening within me. Something vast and powerful.
Letter, August 15, 1882
I hope to express true human emotion.
Letter, August 4-8, 1883
How much peace and space and stillness there is in the nature here.
1883.10.3.
What I really want to learn is exactly that: to change reality, to correct it, to deviate from it, and to express it through inaccurate forms. So that they become a lie that is more useful than the literal truth, yes, a lie.
July 1885
So I dare to promise you this: that my painting will get better. For that is all I have left.
1888.07.22.
But it has always been my wish to paint for people who know almost nothing about the artistry of a work.
1889.04.30.
Right now I’m painting a portrait of one of the patients here. It’s a strange thing, but once you spend some time with them and grow accustomed to them, you can no longer think of them as mad people.
1889.10.20.~22.
| Vincent van Gogh: A Self-Portrait in Art and Letters [hardcover] | by Vincent Willem van Gogh / edited by H. Anna Suh / translated by Lee Chang-sil | Thinking Tree (Saenggak-ui Namu) | November 30, 2007 | Original title: Vincent van Gogh : A Self-Portrait in Art and Letters |
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