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VINCENT VAN GOGH:
Excerpts from the Letters
SUGGESTIVE COLOR
To Theo, Arles, n.d. [ca. September 1888]
I often think of his [Seurat's] method, though I do not follow it at all; but he is an
original colorist, and Signac too, though to a different degree, their stippling is a
new discovery, and at all events I like them very much. But I myself-I tell you
frankly-am returning more to what I was looking for before I came to Paris.
I do not know if anyone before me has talked about suggestive color, but Delacroix
and Monticelli, without talking about it, did it.
But I have got back to where I was in Nuenen, when I made a vain attempt
to learn music, so much did I already feel the relation between our color and
Wagner's music.
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