16 July 2024

Irresistible.



This is my ambition, which is founded less on anger than on love, founded more on serenity than on passion. Indeed, I am often in the greatest misery, but still, there is within me a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner, I see drawings and pictures. And with irresistible force my mind is drawn towards these things. Believe me that sometimes I laugh heartily because people suspect me of all kinds of malignity and absurdity, of which not a hair of my head is guilty — I, who am really no one but a friend of nature, of study, of work, and especially of people.

Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo van Gogh, Monday, 31 July 1882.

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