Vincent van Gogh:

What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I'd like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody.

— Vincent van Gogh Modern

Post-impressionist painter

Context

Letter to his brother Theo van Gogh

Date / Period

1882

Source

https://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let263/letter.html

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