I'm not making a point of it, because the painting is one of the ugliest I've done. It's the equivalent, though different, of the potato eaters. I've tried to express the terrible human passions with the red and the green.
Post-impressionist painter
Letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, referring to 'The Night Cafe'
1888
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