THE WALLS COME FROM DARKNESS

| VAN GOGH PART 1 |

| Artist’s note | The walls come from darkness as far as my eye can see. Voices from that door I cannot resist I must go to that place to see the things it has told me […] I found myself keeping the door for want of my ear as fare I blithely agreed.

| 21 July 1882 | "I would like to express not something sentimentally melancholic but deep sorrow […] 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. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music." Vincent