Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)

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Letter #155 To Theo van Gogh

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

Alfred , Shanghai Happy

Letter #155 To Theo van Gogh

So instead of succumbing to homesickness, I said to myself, one’s country or native land is everywhere. So instead of giving way to despair, I took the way of active melancholy as long as I had strength for activity, or in other words, I preferred the melancholy that hopes and aspires and searches to the one that despairs, mournful and stagnant.

Ori , Italy Loving

Letter #155 To Theo van Gogh

But what’s your ultimate goal, you’ll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

Arista , Indonesia Hopeful