PAINT YOUR OWN GOOD CHEER AND LAUGHTER INTO YOUR WORK
“I do not need to go to the Museum and to see Titian and Velasquez. I have studied my trade in Nature's workshop, and now I know better than I did before I took my little journey, what is above all necessary if one wishes to paint the South. Heavens! what fools all these painters are! They say that Delacroix does not paint the Orient as it is. Only Parisians—Gérôme, etc.—can paint the Orient as it is—is that their claim? It really is a funny thing, this business of painting, out in the wind and the sun. And when the crowd looks over one's shoulder, one simply sets to like mad, as if the devil himself were at one's back, until the canvas is covered. It is precisely in this way that one discovers what everything depends upon. And this is the whole secret.
After a while one takes the study up again and attends a little more to the form. Then, at least, the thing looks less rough and more harmonious, and one also introduces something of one's own good cheer and laughter into it.” - Excerpt From: Vincent van Gogh. “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh.”
Van Gogh painted out in the field and did studies before he attempted his final painting. I love how he wrote that an artist introduces something of their own good cheer and laughter into their work. A roomful of students can all paint the same study and no two paintings will look the same because each student is a unique individual.
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