The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

When the apple is ripe, a soft breeze will make it fall from the tree

I’m getting on well here, I’ve got a lovely home & I’m finding it very pleasurable taking a look at London & the English way of life & the English people themselves, & then I’ve got nature & art & poetry, & if that isn’t enough, what is?

And then there are painters who never do anything that is no good, who cannot do anything bad, just as there are ordinary people who can do nothing but good.

Admire as much as you can, most people don’t admire enough.

Do go on doing a lot of walking & keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better & better. Painters understand nature & love her & teach us to see.

& if that isn’t enough, what is?

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Do go on doing a lot of walking & keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better & better. Painters understand nature & love her & teach us to see.

That a woman is a ‘quite different being’ from a man, & a being we do not yet know, or at best only superficially, as you put it, yes, that I am sure of. And that a woman & a man can become one, that is, one whole & not two halves, I believe that too.

If that kind of book teaches us anything it is that there is much more to love than people generally suppose

That does not mean there are no old women, only that a woman does not grow old as long as she loves & is loved