#dear vincent

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Mary Oliver, from “August,” in featured in Poetry (August 1993)

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Nedra Surana & Vincent Carter                     “From the moment we met..it was you” @playinxwithxfire

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Do let us go on quietly, examining all things and holding fast to that which is good,

Vincent Van Gogh in his letter to his brother Theo dated 3 April 1878, Amsterdam, featured in Ever Yours: The Essential Letters

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brought my dear Vincent’s books to see his beloved flower. 🌻🌻🌻// no. 062118

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Sip and Gogh 🎨 Eastwood Quezon City

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…I am always between two currents of thought, first the material difficulties, turning round and round to make a living; and second, the study of color. I am always in hope of making a discovery there, to express the love of two lovers in a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibration of kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of a light tone against a sombre background.   To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

Vincent Van Gogh (b. 30 Mar 1853) in his letter to his brother Theo, Summer of 1888, as featured in Van Gogh (Pocket Library of Great Art)

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In August of 1888, he wrote to his brother Theo, "I am hard at it, painting with the enthusiasm of a Marseillais eating bouillabaisse, which won't surprise you when you know that what I'm at is the painting of some sunflowers." - For your other anon, he loved sunflowers. He decored his whole house -yellow house- with them!!

yes! i was thinking exactly about this letter he wrote in Arles when the other anon sent that ask but of course what do i know, right? i was thinking perhaps that anon has something we didn’t know so i asked ‘how though?.’ aside from the books gifted to me and some letters i have read addressed to his brother, i have been reading extensively about sunflowers in the past few days (because of a project about sunflowers that didn’t push through), and i think it is safe to assume he adored this light-loving blooms. you can read some of the articles here, here, and here.

p.s. yep, i love Vincent. :D

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“Grant that we may meet her on our path, grant that one day Mrs van Gogh sits before us in the carriage. Amen.”

--- Vincent Van Gogh To his brother Theo from Dordrecht, 1877

“His unrequited loves” is an interactive visualization of Vincent Van Gogh’s quest for love, featured in Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam website.