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070 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 19 February 1876.
in note 6:
Rev. Tryan’s study is described as follows: ‘Mr Tryan’s study was a very ugly little room indeed, with...an ugly view of cottage roofs and cabbage-gardens from the window’, and: ‘that musty house, among...
139 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 9 and Thursday, 10 January 1878.
in translation:
...beautiful, and I said I would much rather see an ugly woman by Israëls or Millet or a little old...
...and would prefer to be involved with one who was ugly or old or impoverished or in some way unhappy...
154 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Monday, 11 and Thursday, 14 August 1879.
in note 2:
...well and is completely at ease, though he pulls ugly faces now and then. Even so, in the circumstances...
186 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 18 November 1881.
in translation:
...to her or something like that then there are ugly words like ‘coercion’ and ‘it won’t help...
189 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Wednesday, 23 November 1881.
in translation:
...the side of ‘Love on’! ‘Greed’ is a very ugly word, but that devil Avarice leaves no one in...
220 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 23 April 1882.
in translation:
...or on the heath or in the dunes. Then my ugly face and my weather-stained jacket are perfectly in...
221 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 26 April 1882.
in translation:
...feverish, perhaps you’d also have the occasional ugly tic, and something in your voice, to show...
225 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 10 May 1882.
in translation:
...find repellent. First of all, her speech, which is ugly and which is the result of her illness...
232 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 28 May 1882.
in translation:
...I’ve never had such a good assistant as this ugly??? wasted woman. To me she’s beautiful, and I...
234 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 1 and Friday, 2 June 1882.
in translation:
...like that. I’m aware that sometimes very ugly things were repeatedly said about me in the family...
...pregnancy is a hard undertaking. Her speech is ugly, and she often says things and uses expressions...
...me in the slightest. I would rather she had ugly speech and was good than cultured in her speech...
236 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Tuesday, 6 June 1882.
in note 3:
Van Gogh originally wrote ‘everything that’s ugly’.
247 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 18 July 1882.
in translation:
...who gave birth a fortnight ago. No, it’s an ugly business, but he doesn’t feel that. With him...
286 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 24 November 1882.
in translation:
...how eagerly people use it and what a stupid and ugly phrase it is. I believe that in a certain...
291 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between Monday, 4 and Saturday, 9 December 1882.
in translation:
...of the hare and the tortoise, and the ugly duckling by Andersen. Edwin Edwards the etcher, for...
in note 18:
‘Het lelijke jonge eendtjen’ (The ugly duckling) in Sprookjens en verhalen van H.C. Andersen. Ed. J.J.L...
307 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 4 February 1883.
in translation:
...boots. And while I myself found this sheet very ugly in the first days, I’ve since become more...
361 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 July 1883.
in translation:
...done that with in the city itself; most think the city ugly and pass by all of it. And yet it’s...
...I saw another one at Van der Weele’s, very ugly, and a head, very good, but a portrait of Van der...
...no correspondences to what exists. I find it very ugly. But I regard it as a period of illness...
366 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 24 July 1883.
in translation:
...all over again, and that is gossip that’s very ugly, and so keep it to yourself without saying...
379 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 23 and about Wednesday, 29 August 1883.
in translation:
...in Victor Hugo’s Misérables used to say to ugly, even poisonous beasts: Poor beast, it isn’t...
381 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 5 September 1883.
in translation:
...of flower-beds, arbours, verandas. Most of the houses very ugly, but some old and elegant. Well, at...
395 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Friday, 12 or Saturday, 13 October 1883.
in translation:
...hats. Also many veritable Jews who look extraordinarily ugly amidst Milletesque types or on this...
396 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 15 October 1883.
in translation:
...different, so that you would rather keep silent about it, and work. Your work is ugly — fine — let it be ugly — it will annoy but not discourage you. After scrabbling around for a while, lo and...
397 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Tuesday, 16 October 1883.
in translation:
...say ‘I think it beautiful’ when they think it ugly; no, what I want is an intelligent honesty...
434 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Wednesday, 5 and about Sunday, 9 March 1884.
in translation:
...of luck in life. Whether the woman is beautiful or ugly, young or old, should she prove better or...
451 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 2 July 1884.
in translation:
...at least, a summery effect is either impossible or ugly that’s my feeling, at least — it’s...
454 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between mid-August and early September 1884.
in translation:
...house (which is full yet again of beautiful and ugly antiques) that he wants to paint himself. He had a...
490 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 6 April 1885.
in translation:
...will say they’re not finished or they’re ugly &c. &c., but — in my view — show them anyway...
494 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 18 April 1885.
in translation:
...relatively indifferent as to whether people think it very ugly or better. That’s not to say that...
497 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Thursday, 30 April 1885.
in translation:
...show him this painting. He may think it ugly — very well — but let him see it anyway — so...
509 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 22 June 1885.
in translation:
...and models to make progress. And that drawback is ugly. But otherwise — painting and, to my mind...
534 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 10 October 1885.
in translation:
...much of what they call subtle grey is very ugly grey, even if you think me pessimistic or worse...
535 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 13 October 1885.
in translation:
...In many cases, what they call brightness is an ugly studio tone in a cheerless city studio. It...
546 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Sunday, 6 December 1885.
in translation:
...of whom was ugly. I mean, a figure that struck me like an amazingly beautiful Jordaens or Velázquez or — Goya — was one in black silk, probably some inn landlady or other, with an ugly and...
618 To Arnold Koning. Arles, Tuesday, 29 or Wednesday, 30 May 1888.
in note 3:
...who weren’t used to my studies thought they were ugly at first, but when they looked at them for a long...
626 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between Saturday, 16 and Wednesday, 20 June 1888.
in translation:
...re bitterly, bitterly disappointed and find them careless, ugly, badly painted, badly drawn, bad in...
...it gets scorched and dusty it doesn’t become ugly, but then a landscape takes on tones of gold of...
630 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 23 June 1888.
in translation:
...done these past few days, because it’s very ugly. And yet the figure interests me much more than...
...the head of a Zouave, although that one’s very ugly. But as I wouldn’t wish to deprive him of...
632 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Tuesday, 26 June 1888.
in translation:
...is restful and diverting. What I’ve done is very ugly: a drawing of the Zouave, seated, a painted...
...bricks of a wall. It’s harsh and, well, ugly and badly done. However, since that’s the real...
635 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 1 July 1888.
in translation:
...Daumiers, Corots, Daubignys and Millets aren’t ugly because in many cases they were done at great...
653 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
in translation:
...However, I imagine it would disappoint you and appear ugly were you to see it. You see that the...
658 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 9 August 1888.
in translation:
...flowers. A real Vermeer of Delft, then. It’s not ugly, the south. Handshake. Ever yours, Vincent
665 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 21 August 1888.
in translation:
...that you and Gauguin would understand it, but how ugly they’ll find it! You fellows know what a...
in note 12:
...88, pp. 373-413. Cochin described Giotto as ‘ugly and sickly’ (laid et chétif) (p. 378). Cf. also...
678 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888.
in translation:
...well arranged, resplendent. Jewellers are old and ugly too, before they know how to arrange...
680 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 11 September 1888.
in translation:
...the night café now, usually seem to me atrociously ugly and bad, but when I’m moved by something...
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in note 18:
...in letter 665. It reads in full: ‘Giotto, ugly and sickly but radiating natural genius, was...
695 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in translation:
...I’m unable to render because I make it ugly in my painting, and coarse, whereas nature seems...
698 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Friday, 5 October 1888.
in translation:
...real world. But you’ll probably find these studies ugly, I don’t know. In any case, neither...
738 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 19 January 1889.
in translation:
...there’s an enormous amount of Socrates in him, ugly as a satyr as Michelet said...until on the...
779 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 June 1889.
in translation:
...colours, the ochres for example. Is a Van Goyen ugly because it’s painted all in oils with very...
811 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 21 October 1889.
in translation:
...you, though, and a few things seem unimportant and ugly to you. Wil and you can do with them as you...
824 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 7 December 1889.
in translation:
...a lot of trouble, and sometimes I find them very ugly, sometimes they look good to me – perhaps...

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