“I said to Mauve: Do you approve of my coming here for a mont…”

“I said to Mauve: Do you approve of my coming here for a month or so and troubling you for some advice now and then, after that time I will have over come the first 'petites miseres' of painting.. .Well, Mauve at once set me down before a still life of a pair of old wooden shoes and some other objects, and so I could set to work.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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Title: Wikiquote: Vincent van Gogh
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In his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands in December 1881; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935, p. 29 (letter 162)

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Gogh, Vincent van. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Vincent van Gogh. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

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