Vincent van Gogh Quote

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.


Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889 (ed. 1929)


Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it...

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it...

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it...

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it...