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VINCENT VAN GOGH:
Excerpts from the Letters
THE STARRY NIGHT, 1888
To Emile Bernard, Arles, second Half of ]une 1888
But when shall I paint my starry sky, that picture which preoccupies me continuously?
Alas! Alas! it is just as our excellent colleague Cyprien says in J.K.
Huysmans' En Menage: "The most beautiful pictures are those one dreams about
when smoking pipes in bed, but which one will never paint."
One must attack them nonetheless, however incompetent one may feel
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