"However, I remember very well being most impressed by a drawing of Daumier's: an old man under the chestnut trees in the Champs Elysées (an illustration for Balzac), though the drawing was not all that important. What impressed me so much at the time was something so stout and manly in Daumier's conception, something that made me think It must be good to think and to feel like that and to overlook or ignore a multitude of things and to concentrate on what makes us sit up and think and what touches us as human beings more directly and personally than meadows or clouds."
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Quote of Vincent van Gogh, in his letter, from The Hague, 22 October 1882, to his brother Theo; translated by Mrs. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, ed. Robert Harrison, number 237
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