Sunday, June 20, 2010

On looking through old sketchbooks: 11

"But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the draft turns into the sketch and the sketch into the painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought."

Vincent Van Gogh, Letter to Theo Van Gogh, July 1880.

Free association drawing, marker pen on vellum, 2005


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