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031 To Theo van Gogh. London, Tuesday, 6 April 1875.
in translation:
...know, only this is talent and the other is genius. I’ve again copied out one or two things for...
127 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 18 August 1877.
in note 12:
...here to the following passage (headed ‘The genius of despair and suicide’): ‘And my advice to...
133 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 30 October 1877.
in translation:
...of days ago (one shouldn’t utter the word genius lightly, even if one believes that there is more...
176 To Anthon van Rappard. Etten, Saturday, 15 October 1881.
in translation:
...recently when I needed it. He’s a man of genius. So now you’re thinking seriously of going to...
236 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Tuesday, 6 June 1882.
in note 2:
...is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or...
280 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 5 November 1882.
in translation:
...two men, don’t talk to me of that. Their genius may be equalled in past, present or later ages...
...Israëls, for example, may equal Millet, but with genius there’s no question of surpassing or...
in note 3:
...links this view to Victor Hugo’s ideas about genius in William Shakespeare. See Hugo 1864, pp. 233-234...
288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
in note 1:
...have taken this as their name. They believe that genius is something divine, and that an artist is...
307 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 4 February 1883.
in note 4:
...he derives most of his subjects, and in which his genius seems most at home. How eminently favourable this...
332 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 21 March 1883.
in translation:
...beyond that is that extra something of singular genius of which I would say: perhaps one improves...
358 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 2 July 1883.
in translation:
...as regards their character, intentions and genius, according to public opinion, people of whom the...
359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.
in note 1:
...Victor Hugo was true to his whole past, his whole genius. He could not write them in any other way, because...
in note 7:
...to different degrees – they have a measure of genius, which can sometimes express itself in maladjusted...
388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
in translation:
...superficial as a person, and a certain germ of genius has begun its development, and he has steered...
400 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 28 October 1883.
in translation:
...than with anything else. You must have a certain genius, I don’t know another word for it, which...
450 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, mid-June 1884.
in translation:
...verify and — — very substantially alter the old-fashioned ideas of innate genius, inspiration &c. in art. I don’t deny the existence of genius, though, nor even its innate nature. But I do...
in note 14:
...genius in his book William Shakespeare (see Hugo 1864, pp. 233-234, and exhib. cat. Vienna 1996, pp. 33, 48 (n. 12); cf. also letter 280). In Les artistes de mon temps Blanc talked of Delacroix’s ‘genie lumineux’ (brilliant genius), of ‘Les grands génies’ (the great geniuses) and stated ‘Poëte religieux, Delacroix comprend le génie du christianisme’ (As a religious poet, Delacroix understands the genius of Christianity) (Blanc 1876, pp. 58, 75, 80...
476 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 December 1884.
in translation:
...run parallel to Leys, not just as regards genius but perhaps also — fortune. However, he didn’t...
RM14 Fragment of text on the back of the sketch ‘Peasant woman, head’ (F - / JH 628). Nuenen, about January-February 1885.
in translation:
genius – a figure of a...
510 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Sunday, 28 June 1885.
in translation:
...lots of talent, as much as possible — but genius? — no. This painting of Uhde’s — is much...
in note 6:
Van Gogh also contrasted the concepts of talent and genius in letter 31.
528 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 August 1885.
in translation:
...as I do that of Millet himself. I think his genius on a par with that of Millet I. My brother was...
531 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 2 September 1885.
in translation:
...as great — as Michelangelo and Rembrandt — the old infinite, the new infinite too — the old genius, the new genius. Perhaps someone like Chenavard doesn’t see it like this — but for my part...
536 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 20 October 1885.
in note 1:
...have to wait and see whether he proves to have genius. I believe it and several with me, Bonger among...
538 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 3 or Wednesday, 4 November 1885.
in translation:
...forget that they made the Revolution, and it took genius to carry their age along with them and to get...
552 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, between Tuesday, 12 and Saturday, 16 January 1886.
in note 11:
...will not be able to finish a very ambitious work that was meant to have proved his genius once and for all.
584 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 10 March 1888.
in translation:
...by their own efforts and by their individual genius in the first place — but — nevertheless, in...
620 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 5 June 1888.
in note 6:
...noisy world; he has the refinement and strokes of genius which only come to an imagination overwhelmed with...
651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.
in translation:
...to flowers. Daumier is also a really great genius. Millet, another painter of an entire race and...
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in note 18:
...Giotto, ugly and sickly but radiating natural genius, was painting scenes from the Divine Comedy at the...
691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
in note 14:
See letter 683, n. 18, for the description of Giotto as sickly, but a genius.
746 Arnold Koning to Vincent van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 15 February 1889.
in translation:
...According to Theo, Breitner was the greatest Dutch genius. It does me good to hear a connoisseur...
786 Jo van Gogh-Bonger to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 5 July 1889.
in note 11:
...of Venice acted. How great, how immense a genius must Shakespeare have possessed, that still now...
805 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889.
in translation:
...t it? Good – make them blue and that’s enough! Gauguin is a genius sometimes when he explains that, but as for the genius Gauguin has, he’s very timid about showing it, and it’s touching how...
828 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Le Pouldu, on or about Friday, 13 December 1889.
in translation:
...You’ll say that they, the ancient masters, have genius. That’s true, and we don’t have it...
RM21 To Joseph Jacob Isaäcson. Auvers-sur-Oise, Sunday, 25 May 1890.
in translation:
...has equal worth with the people whose genius attains a thus-far-and-no-further, forever consoling...

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...recently when I needed it. He’s a man of genius’ (176). He continued to be a guiding light for...

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