1. You are now qualified...Copy !req
2. for evangelical work
under the auspices...Copy !req
3. of the Belgian Committee
of the Messengers of the Faith.Copy !req
4. May the Lord guide you
and sustain you in all your ways.Copy !req
5. Congratulations, Dr. Bosman.
A very creditable group of young men.Copy !req
6. About this other young man,
Dr. Bosman.Copy !req
7. Are you sure he's quite hopeless?Copy !req
8. Gentlemen, I've trained a great
many students in evangelical work...Copy !req
9. but never in my life
have I come across a case quite like this.Copy !req
10. He is completely unable
to speak extemporary.Copy !req
11. He prepares long and obscure sermons,
which he's unable to memorize...Copy !req
12. and has to read like a stumbling
and inarticulate child.Copy !req
13. Now, can we send that kind of man out
into the field to represent our society?Copy !req
14. Dr. Peeters, I think that's conclusive.Copy !req
15. Dr. Bosman, ask him to come in,
please.Copy !req
16. Mr. Van Gogh, we have Dr. Bosman's
report on your progress here.Copy !req
17. In view of what he's told us,
you understand...Copy !req
18. if your teacher feels
that you're unqualified...Copy !req
19. this committee cannot give you
an appointment.Copy !req
20. We regret it more than we can say.Copy !req
21. Gentlemen, I think that concludes
committee business for today.Copy !req
22. Dr. Peeters.Copy !req
23. Mr. Van Gogh?Copy !req
24. Do you feel that the committee
were unjust in their decision?Copy !req
25. - No, sir.
- We did what we had to do...Copy !req
26. in view of your records.Copy !req
27. - Yes, sir.
- Come here.Copy !req
28. Your father is a minister, is he not?Copy !req
29. I'm not trying to put myself
on a level with my father.Copy !req
30. I only hoped in—
In some way to—Copy !req
31. - To follow in his footsteps—
- Yet, until a year ago...Copy !req
32. you showed no inclination
or desire to follow your father's calling.Copy !req
33. Believe me, this is something
I have to do.Copy !req
34. I wanna help the unfortunates.
I wanna bring them the word of God.Copy !req
35. Even if I'm not qualified,
there must be some way I can serve.Copy !req
36. Isn't there any place for me?Copy !req
37. Somewhere no one else wants to go?
I'll do anything. Only use me.Copy !req
38. Use me.Copy !req
39. Come here.Copy !req
40. - Do you know this part of the country?
- No.Copy !req
41. It's a coal-mining region.
The Borinage.Copy !req
42. There exists no more miserable people
on the face of the earth...Copy !req
43. than the miners who live there.Copy !req
44. If you really mean what you said about
wanting to help the unfortunates...Copy !req
45. here's your chance.Copy !req
46. The heart that seeks God
has more storms than any others.Copy !req
47. Life is a struggle here below.Copy !req
48. Yet, out of our...Copy !req
49. Out of our sufferings,
God teaches us higher things.Copy !req
50. He wills—Copy !req
51. He wills that man should live
humbly...Copy !req
52. and go through life,
not reaching after lofty aims...Copy !req
53. but fitting himself to the lowly
and learning from the Gospels...Copy !req
54. to be meek...Copy !req
55. and simple of heart.Copy !req
56. Father, we pray to thee to keep us
from evil and despair.Copy !req
57. Feed us with the bread that does not
perish, which is thy word.Copy !req
58. Oh, Lord.Copy !req
59. Amen.Copy !req
60. Mister.Copy !req
61. Mister.Copy !req
62. - I don't know what your name is but—
- Ducrucq.Copy !req
63. —why did you leave?Copy !req
64. Did I say something wrong?Copy !req
65. I saw you leave.
What did I say that offended you?Copy !req
66. Just because it's Sunday, you don't
expect us to listen to the pious bilge...Copy !req
67. - ... you gave us just now.
- Bilge?Copy !req
68. Look, I worked all week on that sermon.
I meant every word of it.Copy !req
69. Listen, mister.Copy !req
70. Every now and then, somebody comes
here from the outside and tries to help us.Copy !req
71. They mean well, so do you probably.Copy !req
72. But that doesn't help us
at all, does it?Copy !req
73. I wanna bring you the word of God.Copy !req
74. What can I do? Tell me?Copy !req
75. I don't know.Copy !req
76. Help me. Help me
to understand you people.Copy !req
77. To know you. Take me into
your homes where you live.Copy !req
78. We don't live here.Copy !req
79. We only come here to sleep.Copy !req
80. Down there, 2000 feet
underground, that's where we live.Copy !req
81. Can I go down? Take me.
Will you take me down?Copy !req
82. Sure. I can arrange it.Copy !req
83. Be here in the morning
when I go to work.Copy !req
84. At 4:00.Copy !req
85. I'm trembling inside of me
just as much as you are.Copy !req
86. And I've been going down
for 33 years.Copy !req
87. - How old is that child?
- Eleven.Copy !req
88. How long has she been working here?Copy !req
89. A year.
Her father was killed in the explosion.Copy !req
90. Listen, mister.Copy !req
91. Every now and then, somebody comes
from the outside and tries to help us.Copy !req
92. They mean well, so do you probably.Copy !req
93. But that doesn't help us
at all, does it?Copy !req
94. Ducrucq.Copy !req
95. Come down. Come down.
Somebody...Copy !req
96. Why don't you come down
and bring some help.Copy !req
97. There were eight of us in this shaft.Copy !req
98. I was the only one to get out.Copy !req
99. What are you waiting for?
Well, what are you—?Copy !req
100. I've got a blanket in there
for one of the wounded and some bread.Copy !req
101. What about you?Copy !req
102. Wait for me.Copy !req
103. Van Gogh.Copy !req
104. I see you don't remember us.Copy !req
105. From the Committee
of the Messengers of the Faith.Copy !req
106. I'm glad you've come. Did you bring
food and clothes for the families?Copy !req
107. - Families?
- Another accident?Copy !req
108. - You didn't know?
- Sorry to hear it. Were there many lost?Copy !req
109. Six. Four men, two children.
Twenty-eight injured.Copy !req
110. Terrible. We'll see what we can do.Copy !req
111. It's unfortunate that our visit
comes at this time.Copy !req
112. It was Rev. Peeters' particular wish.Copy !req
113. The purpose of our coming
is an inspection.Copy !req
114. Excuse me, gentlemen.
I'll be right back.Copy !req
115. - Just what is the meaning of this?
- You receive an allowance.Copy !req
116. Why have you chosen to live in the most
wretched, filthy shack in this village?Copy !req
117. Because we've no right to
spread the word of God to these people...Copy !req
118. - ... unless we suffer as they do.
- You, yourself are unclean.Copy !req
119. Your clothes are ragged and dirty.Copy !req
120. People here have no clothes at all.Copy !req
121. You mean to tell us you actually—
You sleep on dirt and straw...Copy !req
122. like a beast of the field?Copy !req
123. - That's—
- The spiritual leader?Copy !req
124. I gave my bed to a sick woman
who needed it more.Copy !req
125. You're new in this work.
I've no doubt that you mean well.Copy !req
126. By your behavior you've degraded
the dignity of the Church...Copy !req
127. - ... whose representative you are.
- Have you no sense of decency?Copy !req
128. Don't you understand that
if the clergy is to be respected—Copy !req
129. I don't care to be respected.Copy !req
130. I'm trying to live like a true Christian.Copy !req
131. I'm not going to worry
about how I sleep.Copy !req
132. Look at the fresh graves of the children
in the cemetery.Copy !req
133. Scrub floors and pick coal
with the women.Copy !req
134. Get those clothes dirty with
the blood and sweat of dying miners...Copy !req
135. then come here and lecture me
about Christianity.Copy !req
136. Hypocrites. Hypocrites!Copy !req
137. But you must have heard of him.Copy !req
138. He came here about a year ago
as a preacher. Vincent Van Gogh.Copy !req
139. - Oh, yes.
- You'll find him in the little shack.Copy !req
140. Why, I heard he's been...Copy !req
141. Vincent.Copy !req
142. Who is it?Copy !req
143. It's Theo.Copy !req
144. - Theo.
- Vincent...Copy !req
145. - ... what have you done to yourself?
- Theo.Copy !req
146. - What's happened to you?
- I was sick for a while...Copy !req
147. - ... but I'm all right now.
- But doesn't anyone look after you?Copy !req
148. - I'd better go and get you some food.
- Don't go, Theo. Stay and talk.Copy !req
149. - Where's the nearest place where I—?
- Please don't go, Theo.Copy !req
150. It's been such a long time.Copy !req
151. Vincent, what are we gonna do
about you?Copy !req
152. Father wrote and asked me to come
and find you.Copy !req
153. For months, he's not heard from you.Copy !req
154. There was nothing to tell.Copy !req
155. Well, what right have you
to decide that?Copy !req
156. Cut yourself off from everybody,
even from me.Copy !req
157. You've become a stranger.
You— You've changed.Copy !req
158. I haven't changed, Theo.Copy !req
159. Outwardly, perhaps. But inside me
I still want the same things.Copy !req
160. What things?Copy !req
161. The things we talked about
in the old days.Copy !req
162. To be of use, to work,
to bring something to the world.Copy !req
163. Do you think this is the answer?Copy !req
164. I don't know, I don't know.Copy !req
165. We've grown apart, Theo.Copy !req
166. Look, you found what you want
in Paris and I'm glad for you.Copy !req
167. I've found nothing, anywhere.Copy !req
168. I've made one bad start after another.
One mess after another.Copy !req
169. I thought I was on my way here
by doing God's work.Copy !req
170. That was the worst failure of all.Copy !req
171. But no matter how often I fail,
there is something in me.Copy !req
172. - Now I am good for something.
- But this is not the way to find it.Copy !req
173. Hiding away here, wasting your time.Copy !req
174. You've become an idler.Copy !req
175. An idler, yes.Copy !req
176. But there are two kinds of idlers.Copy !req
177. There's the man who's idle
because he wants to be...Copy !req
178. out of laziness.Copy !req
179. How easy that is. I envy him.Copy !req
180. But there's the other kind...Copy !req
181. the man who's idle in spite of himself.Copy !req
182. I want nothing but to work.Copy !req
183. Only I can't.Copy !req
184. I'm in a cage. A cage of shame
and self-doubt and failure.Copy !req
185. Somebody believe me. I'm caged.Copy !req
186. I'm caged. I'm alone.Copy !req
187. I'm frightened.Copy !req
188. Vincent.Copy !req
189. Listen to me.Copy !req
190. When we were children...Copy !req
191. I used to follow you about.Copy !req
192. If I was frightened...Copy !req
193. I'd run to look for you.Copy !req
194. If I got lost...Copy !req
195. you'd always come to find me.Copy !req
196. We're still brothers.Copy !req
197. We're friends.Copy !req
198. We can trust one another.Copy !req
199. That's stronger than any cage.Copy !req
200. Whatever you do, from now on...Copy !req
201. wherever you go...Copy !req
202. promise me this:Copy !req
203. Make me part of it.Copy !req
204. Don't ever cut yourself off
from me again.Copy !req
205. - What is it?
- My pipe.Copy !req
206. Now, let me take you home...Copy !req
207. where you can live
and be cared for...Copy !req
208. until you find your way.Copy !req
209. Tell me, if you were me, which would
you want to have your money in?Copy !req
210. These are both accredited canvases.Copy !req
211. Both were exhibited in last year's salon.Copy !req
212. Perhaps you'd prefer to be left alone
for a moment to make your choice.Copy !req
213. I shall be in the next room.Copy !req
214. Dear Theo:Copy !req
215. You were right. It's so good
to be home. To live in peace for a time.Copy !req
216. Once again, thanks to you,
life seems precious to me.Copy !req
217. Something to be valued and loved.
Once again, I'm working.Copy !req
218. You know how for years, whenever
I saw anything that moved me...Copy !req
219. I felt the need to draw it,
to get it down on paper.Copy !req
220. No matter how crudely.
Now, for the first time...Copy !req
221. I've begun to wonder,
could this be the way for me?Copy !req
222. A man or a woman at work.
Some furrows in a plowed field.Copy !req
223. A bit of sand, sea or sky.Copy !req
224. There are subjects so difficult,
and at the same time so beautiful...Copy !req
225. that it's worth spending
one's whole life...Copy !req
226. trying to capture the poetry
that's hidden in them.Copy !req
227. Vincent, have you lost
all track of time?Copy !req
228. Father's upset.
We're practically through dinner.Copy !req
229. You go ahead. I just wanna finish this.Copy !req
230. Couldn't you try to be on time
ju—? Just once in a while.Copy !req
231. Especially with cousin Kay here.Copy !req
232. She brought little Jan with her.Copy !req
233. And, Vincent, try not to argue with
Father, not today.Copy !req
234. I'm sorry I'm late, but—Copy !req
235. Vincent, aren't you
going to say hello to your cousin Kay?Copy !req
236. Hello, cousin.Copy !req
237. Hello, Kay.Copy !req
238. Pardon Vincent.Copy !req
239. He's so interested in his work,
he forgets where he is sometimes.Copy !req
240. - Vincent's an artist.
- He draws on paper.Copy !req
241. Oh, lovely things,
swamps and woods and people—Copy !req
242. He's made a drawing of me.
He makes us all pose for him.Copy !req
243. If you don't watch out,
he'll make you pose.Copy !req
244. - And Jan.
- You should see...Copy !req
245. - ... how he makes people look.
- You're looking at me as though...Copy !req
246. - ... you'd never seen me before.
- It's been a long time.Copy !req
247. Not since before Vos died.Copy !req
248. Oh, I'm sorry. I— Well...Copy !req
249. I guess I shouldn't have mentioned it.Copy !req
250. Well, even though...
Well, it's been almost a year.Copy !req
251. Vincent.Copy !req
252. One doesn't measure such things
in weeks and months, Vincent.Copy !req
253. No, of course not.
See, I only meant that...Copy !req
254. Well, I was gonna write to you,
Cousin Kay...Copy !req
255. but I'm not very good
at those things...Copy !req
256. and, well, then so much time
went by that I...Copy !req
257. Jan's being very quiet. I hope he's not
getting up to any mischief. Excuse me.Copy !req
258. Vincent, really.Copy !req
259. Couldn't you see how she felt?
You know how it was with her and Vos.Copy !req
260. But it—
It's not right to grieve that long.Copy !req
261. God didn't intend the living
to mourn forever.Copy !req
262. I hardly think you're the best judge
of God's intentions, Vincent.Copy !req
263. You realize you haven't been
to church since you got back?Copy !req
264. You, the minister's son.Copy !req
265. - What do you think they're saying?
- I act out of my beliefs, Father.Copy !req
266. Not because I want to
please the village.Copy !req
267. I happen not to believe
in the God of the clergymen.Copy !req
268. For me, he's as dead as a doornail.Copy !req
269. Children, if you've finished,
leave the table, please.Copy !req
270. Go into the other room.Copy !req
271. Vincent, before the children.
Do you realize what you said?Copy !req
272. Yes, Mother, but I—
I must say what I feel...Copy !req
273. and I'm not an atheist.
I do believe in God.Copy !req
274. A God of love, Father, and I believe
there are many ways to serve him.Copy !req
275. One man does it from a pulpit,
another through a book or a painting—Copy !req
276. Let's not discuss it.Copy !req
277. I'm sorry, Father...Copy !req
278. but I was just telling you my opinion.Copy !req
279. Did—? Did you have a good morning
in the fields, Vincent?Copy !req
280. Like any other.Copy !req
281. Do you feel the drawing is going well?Copy !req
282. You work so hard and...Copy !req
283. Well, I can't help noticing that you go
over and over your drawings...Copy !req
284. and often as not,
you throw them away.Copy !req
285. What Mother means is we'd hate to
see— See you keep struggling, Vincent.Copy !req
286. Only to realize in the end,
it was just another failure.Copy !req
287. Maybe he could visit cousin Mauve
in The Hague. He's a successful artist.Copy !req
288. Ask him his opinion of your drawings.
I'm sure he'd be glad to help you.Copy !req
289. I'm not ready to show my work
to Mauve. When I am, I'll go to him.Copy !req
290. I'm sorry, Vincent.Copy !req
291. - How's Jan?
- He's all right, thank you.Copy !req
292. I'm glad you're here, Kay.Copy !req
293. Please, Theo, send more paper
and drawing ink.Copy !req
294. I'm afraid I quickly used up
what you sent last month.Copy !req
295. As I work at my drawings
day after day...Copy !req
296. what seemed unattainable before
is now gradually becoming possible.Copy !req
297. Slowly I'm learning to observe
and measure.Copy !req
298. I don't stand quite so helpless
before nature any longer.Copy !req
299. Come on, Jan.
You rascal. Jan, come on.Copy !req
300. I know there's still something
harsh and stiff in my style...Copy !req
301. although to tell the truth...Copy !req
302. I believe the presence
of Kay here this summer...Copy !req
303. is beginning to have
a softening influence on my work.Copy !req
304. Time for your nap now.Copy !req
305. There. Down you go. Cover you up.Copy !req
306. He fell asleep almost as soon as
I put him down. Thank you.Copy !req
307. He's getting to be such a boy.Copy !req
308. It's been a wonderful summer
for him here.Copy !req
309. It's been a wonderful summer.Copy !req
310. How did it go today? Well?Copy !req
311. When you're with me,
it always goes well.Copy !req
312. I'm glad, Vincent. You work so hard.Copy !req
313. I've seen your light on often
halfway through the night.Copy !req
314. There's much to learn.
Not only about drawing, but people.Copy !req
315. How they feel and think,
the world they live in.Copy !req
316. Before you can paint them
you have to know that too.Copy !req
317. So I read everything I get
my hands on. Dickens, Zola, Michelet.Copy !req
318. You know what Michelet says?Copy !req
319. "Blessed is the man who's found
his work...Copy !req
320. and one woman to love."Copy !req
321. - I need love, Kay.
- Well, of course you do.Copy !req
322. No, I need it to be myself.
To be able to breath.Copy !req
323. I want a home. I want children.Copy !req
324. Vos felt the same way. He made Jan
and me the center of his existence.Copy !req
325. - Nothing else counted—
- Stop talking about Vos. He's dead.Copy !req
326. And we're alive, Kay.
In the present. The present.Copy !req
327. - I love you. Listen to me.
- No.Copy !req
328. We're both alone.
We need each other.Copy !req
329. Look, we'll have a home, Kay.
We'll be happy. I promise you.Copy !req
330. No.Copy !req
331. In God's name, don't be frightened.
I'm only saying I wanna marry you.Copy !req
332. - To be your husband and a father to Jan.
- No. Never. Never!Copy !req
333. "No. Never. Never."Copy !req
334. I tell you, Theo, this thing
threatens me.Copy !req
335. Love is something so strong, so real,
that it's as impossible to quench it...Copy !req
336. as it is for a man to take
his own life.Copy !req
337. I must see her face again and speak
to her once more.Copy !req
338. I'd like to see Miss Kay.Copy !req
339. She's— I'm a—
I'm afraid she's out, sir.Copy !req
340. No, sir, you can't go in now, sir.
The family's at dinner.Copy !req
341. - He pushed his way in, sir.
- Well, Vincent...Copy !req
342. I see what people mean when
they complain about your manners.Copy !req
343. - Where's Kay?
- She's not here. She's visiting friends.Copy !req
344. - Vincent, please sit down.
- She was just sitting here.Copy !req
345. Can't you understand
a simple word like "no"?Copy !req
346. Don't you realize what it meant when
Kay returned your letters unopened?Copy !req
347. May I speak to Kay, please?Copy !req
348. My dear, will you
leave us alone, please?Copy !req
349. Must you persist in the face
of everything?Copy !req
350. Try to be reasonable, Vincent.Copy !req
351. Even if Kay returned your love...Copy !req
352. how could you possibly hope
to provide a home for her?Copy !req
353. You haven't earned money
in a long time. You don't even—Copy !req
354. If a man loves, he lives. If he lives,
he works. If he works, he has bread.Copy !req
355. You think I'm a tramp,
I'll be penniless all my life?Copy !req
356. - It's not a question of money.
- Listen to me.Copy !req
357. All I ask is a chance
to show Kay my love...Copy !req
358. to help her understand why
she must love me.Copy !req
359. You've been in love. You know
what agonies a man can suffer.Copy !req
360. Agonies. Are you such a weakling
that you can't stand...Copy !req
361. the little pain of
a disappointment in love?Copy !req
362. Do you have to whimper about it?Copy !req
363. What do you know about pain?Copy !req
364. I've seen agonies
that you've never dreamed of.Copy !req
365. Let me talk to Kay for as long as
I can keep my hand in this flame.Copy !req
366. Vincent!Copy !req
367. Have you gone out of your mind?Copy !req
368. - Do you hear me whimpering?
- Listen to me, my boy.Copy !req
369. I'd let you talk to Kay to your
heart's content, but for one thing:Copy !req
370. She refuses to see you again, ever.Copy !req
371. I don't believe it.Copy !req
372. She said that your persistence
disgusted her.Copy !req
373. There are some things
that can't be controlled by wishes.Copy !req
374. Love is one of them.Copy !req
375. - I'm sorry.
- But did she say I...?Copy !req
376. I disgusted her?Copy !req
377. Yes.Copy !req
378. Did she actually say that?Copy !req
379. Yes.Copy !req
380. All right, I'm sorry to...Copy !req
381. - I'll be going.
- Where are you staying?Copy !req
382. - Would you like to spend the night?
- Thank you...Copy !req
383. - ... but if Kay leaves the—
- Let me take care of your hand.Copy !req
384. Take care.Copy !req
385. - Our love to your family.
- Good night.Copy !req
386. Good night.Copy !req
387. Come on. Let's get out of here.Copy !req
388. Oh, fine. If you want to sit here,
that's all right.Copy !req
389. - More wine?
- On credit?Copy !req
390. No.Copy !req
391. You all right?Copy !req
392. I'm sick.Copy !req
393. I'm tired. Just leave me alone.Copy !req
394. Everything's rotten. Now I understand
why people drown themselves.Copy !req
395. - Don't say things like that.
- Why not?Copy !req
396. - Suicide's a terrible thing.
- What do you know about it?Copy !req
397. What are you anyway, workingman?Copy !req
398. - Yes.
- You don't talk like one.Copy !req
399. Thanks for the brandy.Copy !req
400. I'm a laundress when I have
the strength to scrub.Copy !req
401. And when I haven't,
I look for easier work.Copy !req
402. I've a baby to feed.
He's at home with my mother.Copy !req
403. - Where's your husband?
- What husband?Copy !req
404. I've been at the tubs all day.Copy !req
405. They were supposed to pay me tonight,
but they put me off till tomorrow.Copy !req
406. - Can't your mother help you?
- She's helped plenty.Copy !req
407. She's taught me all I know.Copy !req
408. Can I have another?Copy !req
409. Here. Put this in your pocket instead.Copy !req
410. - I'm only sorry it isn't more.
- Who bit your hand?Copy !req
411. - I burned it.
- Let me see.Copy !req
412. What are you trying to do?
Fry it for dinner?Copy !req
413. - I'll get something for it.
- It'll be all right.Copy !req
414. Got any oil or butter
in this cockroach trap?Copy !req
415. We sell drinks, not food.Copy !req
416. It's a bad burn. Come home with me.
I'll dress it for you before it gets worse.Copy !req
417. - Thank you. It'll heal.
- What's the matter with you?Copy !req
418. You're afraid to be seen with me?Copy !req
419. This is a woman, Theo, who is
far from young, far from pretty...Copy !req
420. but she was good to me and kind.Copy !req
421. She's evidently had a great deal
of trouble and a hard life...Copy !req
422. and there's nothing at all distinguished
or unusual about her.Copy !req
423. We talked about all sorts of things.
Her life, her troubles, her poverty...Copy !req
424. her health, her loneliness.Copy !req
425. If you had nothing at all,
it would make no difference.Copy !req
426. Since you came over and talked to me,
I don't feel alone anymore.Copy !req
427. I don't know how to say it.Copy !req
428. The clergymen would call us sinners.Copy !req
429. Is it a sin to love, Theo?Copy !req
430. To be in need of love...Copy !req
431. not to be able to live without love?Copy !req
432. Cousin Mauve.Copy !req
433. Oh, Vincent.Copy !req
434. I'm sorry to put off seeing you but
we artists have to be selfish, you know.Copy !req
435. We have to save ourselves.Copy !req
436. After all, with each painting
we die a little.Copy !req
437. What have you there?Copy !req
438. I'm trying to draw.Copy !req
439. I was wondering
if you'd be willing to help.Copy !req
440. I wouldn't ask much, just let me
watch you work now and then...Copy !req
441. and sometimes when you're resting
if— If you look at my things and—Copy !req
442. And tell me my mistakes.Copy !req
443. You think that's not asking much.Copy !req
444. Now, these are just copying exercises.
Don't you have anything of your own?Copy !req
445. Ah, you've been out
at the beach at Scheveningen.Copy !req
446. Well, don't be in such a hurry.
Seascapes are difficult.Copy !req
447. Yes, indeed...Copy !req
448. You know,
I expected to find you a dullard.Copy !req
449. I was wrong.Copy !req
450. They're clumsy, most of them.Copy !req
451. But I can see what you're getting at.Copy !req
452. And that you've worked.Copy !req
453. Yes...Copy !req
454. Tell me something.Copy !req
455. What kind of an artist
do you want to be?Copy !req
456. I wanna create things
that touch people.Copy !req
457. I wanna move them so they say,
"He feels deeply and tenderly."Copy !req
458. That's fine, fine.Copy !req
459. But before you can move people,
you first have to learn your business.Copy !req
460. It needs skill as well as heart.Copy !req
461. Tell me something.Copy !req
462. - Have you ever worked in color?
- No.Copy !req
463. You'd better start working right away
in watercolors and oil.Copy !req
464. - It'll help your drawing.
- I don't know about color.Copy !req
465. I'll teach you.
We'll work together here.Copy !req
466. - Cousin Mauve—
- No, no. When I'm less tired.Copy !req
467. Now, you'll need some watercolors.
Now, here they are.Copy !req
468. Some brushes, some oil...Copy !req
469. No, this is an incomplete set
but it will do for now.Copy !req
470. There's a palette, palette knife,
oil, turpentine.Copy !req
471. Better have a couple of these.
And...Copy !req
472. Now, to improve your drawing,
you'll need to use casts.Copy !req
473. Now, let me see. Yes.Copy !req
474. Take these home with you...Copy !req
475. and work from them not less than
three hours each day, faithfully.Copy !req
476. - Yes.
- Have you a place to work?Copy !req
477. - I found a flat near the—
- Has it got good light?Copy !req
478. - I usually work out—
- How are you for money?Copy !req
479. No, Theo's been sending me money.Copy !req
480. It's the first few months
are the hardest.Copy !req
481. I don't suppose a little extra
will be unwelcome, eh?Copy !req
482. - Cousin Mauve—
- That will help you set yourself up.Copy !req
483. - Oh, I can't tell you—
- Not at all.Copy !req
484. Now, come back next week.
Let me see what you've done.Copy !req
485. Forgive me for barging in
when you're so tired.Copy !req
486. Don't— That's all right.
Now, just take these with you.Copy !req
487. - I can't tell you how grateful I am.
- That's all right.Copy !req
488. Now, take that. Now...Copy !req
489. How much longer do you need us?Copy !req
490. I can't get supper ready
sitting in this chair, you know.Copy !req
491. Oh. Sorry.Copy !req
492. - You can get up now.
- I'm going to market.Copy !req
493. Next time will you keep
some money for food.Copy !req
494. If we could eat drawings,
that'd be different.Copy !req
495. I saved some money, you dropped it on
the beach. I didn't give it back to you.Copy !req
496. My mother was right...Copy !req
497. getting myself hooked up
with a crazy painter.Copy !req
498. Keep an eye on him.Copy !req
499. Dear brother:Copy !req
500. I think of you so often,
so very, very often these days.Copy !req
501. If only you could be here...Copy !req
502. and see for yourself how it is with us.Copy !req
503. That this is a real home rooted in life...Copy !req
504. with a woman and a cradle
and a child's highchair.Copy !req
505. The feeling I have
for Christine is real too.Copy !req
506. I'm tired.Copy !req
507. I'm going in to feed the baby.Copy !req
508. Not yet.Copy !req
509. Christine, come back.Copy !req
510. I'm fed up.Copy !req
511. - Month after month. It's the same thing.
- What's the matter now?Copy !req
512. I'm fed up with living on bread
and coffee.Copy !req
513. You take every penny you're given and
throw it away on paints and canvas.Copy !req
514. Don't start that again.Copy !req
515. Look at these. How much did they cost?
Haven't even used up the old ones.Copy !req
516. Shut up. Don't interfere with things
you know nothing of.Copy !req
517. I won't shut up.
I have to pick up after you.Copy !req
518. Mend those clothes, pose for hours
on top of everything else.Copy !req
519. - What do you think I am, your slave?
- Stop nagging.Copy !req
520. Sometimes I wonder
if I wasn't better off the way I was.Copy !req
521. Don't you dare. Do you hear me?
Don't you dare.Copy !req
522. If only we could have a piece of meat
once in a while or egg.Copy !req
523. I'm sick of worrying how we're gonna
get money to eat the next day.Copy !req
524. You call that a life?Copy !req
525. Couldn't you write to your brother?Copy !req
526. I can't ask him again,
he's helping all he can.Copy !req
527. What about that man
he wanted you to meet?Copy !req
528. - Tersteeg.
- Maybe he could sell your stuff.Copy !req
529. I went to see him. Offered me
a handout, like I was a beggar.Copy !req
530. - Didn't you take it?
- He said I had no talent.Copy !req
531. - Even if I did, I started too late.
- Well...Copy !req
532. that leaves only your cousin Mauve.
Couldn't he help?Copy !req
533. Or did you have a fight
with him too?Copy !req
534. - Did you?
- Mauve can go to hell.Copy !req
535. He helps when he's in the mood.Copy !req
536. The rest of the time
he doesn't care if I'm dead or alive.Copy !req
537. "Oh, I'm sorry, my boy.Copy !req
538. Go home, I can't see you now.
Go home and work with those casts."Copy !req
539. I'm sick of working with those
idiotic casts.Copy !req
540. Don't look down your nose
at those casts of his.Copy !req
541. He sells what he paints.Copy !req
542. I don't wanna hear about these casts
from you or from anybody else.Copy !req
543. Sien?Copy !req
544. Where have you been?Copy !req
545. - I asked you where you've been.
- At my mother's.Copy !req
546. For two days?
You said you wouldn't go back there.Copy !req
547. - Something to eat for a change.
- You promised not to get...Copy !req
548. - ... drawn into that life again.
- And some jokes for a change.Copy !req
549. - Where you going?
- My father's ill, I— I have to go back.Copy !req
550. Oh.Copy !req
551. How...?Copy !req
552. How long will you be gone?Copy !req
553. Depends on what happens.Copy !req
554. Vincent, I—Copy !req
555. Yes?Copy !req
556. What is it?Copy !req
557. Nothing.Copy !req
558. There's some painting muslin
in the cupboard.Copy !req
559. - Make some shirts for the boy.
- I won't be there when you get back.Copy !req
560. - Don't say that.
- I didn't want to tell you.Copy !req
561. I've been feeling restless.Copy !req
562. Besides, my mother's right. You don't
earn enough for me and the baby.Copy !req
563. - The bad life.
- This is no time—Copy !req
564. You'll forget about us once
you get home. It won't be hard.Copy !req
565. All aboard. All aboard.Copy !req
566. Where will you go?Copy !req
567. - How will you live?
- It will be the old life, I suppose.Copy !req
568. Vincent, it's not your fault.
You've been good.Copy !req
569. You're the only person who's ever
been good to me and the baby.Copy !req
570. Just as if he was your own.Copy !req
571. All aboard. All aboard.Copy !req
572. What is it that came between
Father and me?Copy !req
573. Why couldn't I have shown him
a little more consideration?Copy !req
574. Given him some pleasure
while he was alive?Copy !req
575. It wouldn't have hurt to come
to his church once in a while.Copy !req
576. We always assume there's time.Copy !req
577. And that we can give love
on our own terms.Copy !req
578. Then one day we wake up and find
it's too late to give it on any terms.Copy !req
579. Will you go back to your life in
The Hague?Copy !req
580. No, that's over.Copy !req
581. It was wrong from the beginning.Copy !req
582. Come to Paris, Vincent.Copy !req
583. We could live together.Copy !req
584. You're not the only one that's lonely.Copy !req
585. Not yet, Theo.
Someday, but not now.Copy !req
586. You could meet other painters.
See what they're doing.Copy !req
587. If I am to be anything as a painter,
I've got to break through the iron wall...Copy !req
588. between what I feel and
what I can express.Copy !req
589. And my best chance of doing it is here.
Where my roots are.Copy !req
590. The people I know.Copy !req
591. The earth I know.Copy !req
592. Dear Theo:Copy !req
593. Thank you for the money
and the paints and canvas.Copy !req
594. With your help, I go forward.Copy !req
595. I feel the force to work
growing daily within me.Copy !req
596. Do you realize, Theo,
that what I'm doing is new?Copy !req
597. In the paintings of the old masters...Copy !req
598. did you ever see a single man
or woman at work?Copy !req
599. Did they ever try to paint
a laborer or a man digging?Copy !req
600. They didn't. And for good reason
because work is so hard to draw.Copy !req
601. And look at the way
he's dressed. Oh, that old sheepskin.Copy !req
602. Oh, my, I tell you,
I'm sorry for the family.Copy !req
603. To paint these people...Copy !req
604. means to be with them
in the fields day after day...Copy !req
605. and by their firesides at night.Copy !req
606. Since the rains came,
I've become absorbed in the weavers.Copy !req
607. They make such good subjects.Copy !req
608. The old oak wood darkened
by sweating hands...Copy !req
609. and the shadows of the looms
on the gray mud walls.Copy !req
610. All these months,
I've been trying to find a pattern.Copy !req
611. Trying not so much to draw hands
as gestures...Copy !req
612. not so much faces as
the expressions of people.Copy !req
613. Men and women who know
the meaning of toil.Copy !req
614. I want to make clear
that these people...Copy !req
615. sitting round a meal of potatoes
in the evening...Copy !req
616. have turned the soil
with the very hands they put in the dish.Copy !req
617. That they have honestly
earned their food.Copy !req
618. I want to paint something
that smells of bacon, smoke and steam.Copy !req
619. Something that's the good, dark color
of our Dutch earth.Copy !req
620. Willemien. Come in. come in.Copy !req
621. Here, here, sit down.Copy !req
622. What's the matter?Copy !req
623. The neighbors been at you again?Copy !req
624. You know how they are,
such a small place.Copy !req
625. What is it this time? Huh?Copy !req
626. Well, it has to do with...Copy !req
627. Wi— With the way you
dress partly and...Copy !req
628. Look, I dress this way because
I work in the fields.Copy !req
629. Because I have nothing else.Copy !req
630. And the way you behave too.
They don't understand it.Copy !req
631. And it makes trouble for us.Copy !req
632. Ever since Father died, it—
It hasn't been easy.Copy !req
633. People have stopped coming
to the house. They— They avoid us.Copy !req
634. It isn't very comfortable and...Copy !req
635. Is your young man one of those
who stopped coming?Copy !req
636. Yes, he is,
but that doesn't matter so much.Copy !req
637. - Yes, it does.
- It's the rest of the family.Copy !req
638. Mother pretends she doesn't notice, but—
But I know it's upset her and she...Copy !req
639. Well, she'll never tell you, so—
So I felt I must.Copy !req
640. I'll get out. Take a few days
to finish this and then I'll leave.Copy !req
641. No, Vincent, I—
I didn't mean that, I...Copy !req
642. Of course you did, Willemien.Copy !req
643. It's all right, I...Copy !req
644. I've accomplished
what I stayed here to do and...Copy !req
645. Maybe it is time to move on.Copy !req
646. I am sick and tired of these cheap jokes.Copy !req
647. Art is a serious business.Copy !req
648. And in Paris, at least,
an artist with a new idea should be—Copy !req
649. I agree with you, Durand-Ruel.
Impressionism is not a joke.Copy !req
650. It's a cancer
and it must be cut out.Copy !req
651. Condone anarchism in the arts
and you seal the doom of France.Copy !req
652. What would you do?
Ship painters to Devil's Island?Copy !req
653. These men are shameless.Copy !req
654. They load pistols with tubes of paint
and fire them at the canvas.Copy !req
655. And then have the audacity
to sign their names.Copy !req
656. Cézanne, Signac, Pissarro, Gauguin,
Renoir, Monet.Copy !req
657. You know these men,
you handle some.Copy !req
658. Why didn't you tell me about it?
Let me know?Copy !req
659. I wrote you in Antwerp.
Don't you read my letters?Copy !req
660. But seeing them. The colors.Copy !req
661. Theo, the colors.
And what they've done with light—Copy !req
662. - Is that painting?
- The critics and the public don't think so.Copy !req
663. Nor do my employers at Goupil's.Copy !req
664. I can't believe they'd be— No, if they're
right, everything I've done is wrong.Copy !req
665. Do they really know
what they're doing?Copy !req
666. You've got to meet and talk to them,
see what they think.Copy !req
667. - That's why I wanted you to come.
- I gotta see them. Where?Copy !req
668. - I got many questions.
- At 2:00 in the morning?Copy !req
669. - Why not?
- Listen, take that thing off...Copy !req
670. and settle down.
You live here, you know.Copy !req
671. We've got to make a Parisian
out of you.Copy !req
672. You'll have lots of time
to get your answers.Copy !req
673. Tomorrow we'll start with Pissarro.Copy !req
674. It's the problem of translating light
into the language of paint.Copy !req
675. Those leaves there...Copy !req
676. if they were the only thing in sight,
they'd have one color: their own.Copy !req
677. But the shade and reflection
of everything around...Copy !req
678. the sky, the earth, the water...Copy !req
679. give them more than their own color.Copy !req
680. That's why, when you paint from nature,
don't fix your eye on any one spot.Copy !req
681. Take in everything at once.
And, above all, don't be timid.Copy !req
682. Trust your first impression.Copy !req
683. Everything you've been doing,
what we've all been doing...Copy !req
684. obsolete, the whole lot of us
guessing with every brushstroke...Copy !req
685. pouring rivers of paint into...Copy !req
686. haphazard combinations
when, actually, everything we're after...Copy !req
687. can be achieved mathematically.Copy !req
688. Oh, what are you talking about?
Seurat again?Copy !req
689. Do you really think a painting
can be done by formula?Copy !req
690. Can be? Is being done,
right here in Paris...Copy !req
691. through precise, scientific methods.Copy !req
692. I don't mix my colors on canvas.
I mix them in the eye of the spectator.Copy !req
693. Once you accept the phenomenon of the
duration of light in the human retina—Copy !req
694. Excuse me, but this is a sunlit exterior.Copy !req
695. Why do you paint it indoors by gaslight?Copy !req
696. - I mean, how can you judge your colors?
- Why not?Copy !req
697. Come on, Seurat,
put him out of his misery.Copy !req
698. - I've tried, but he's still in darkness.
- All right, Bernard, come here.Copy !req
699. Everything I do
is worked out in advance...Copy !req
700. with mathematical accuracy through
precise scientific methods.Copy !req
701. I know exactly what colors I'm going
to use before I pick up my brushes.Copy !req
702. And my palette is methodically prepared
in the order of the spectrum.Copy !req
703. As you see, blue, blue-violet,
violet, violet-red, red...Copy !req
704. red-orange, orange-yellow,
yellow...Copy !req
705. - Theo. Theo.
- What is it?Copy !req
706. - Oh, can't it wait till morning?
- No, please, I need your help.Copy !req
707. Here.Copy !req
708. - What is it this time?
- Look at this.Copy !req
709. Well?Copy !req
710. Yes, it's coming along.Copy !req
711. It's got a very good sense of light.Copy !req
712. What's the matter? You look terrible.Copy !req
713. Will you be able to sell it?Copy !req
714. I'll try.Copy !req
715. It's hard to sell any of the new painters,
even the ones with some sort of name.Copy !req
716. You know how Goupil's begrudges me
the little space in the back room.Copy !req
717. Then why don't you leave Goupil's?
Set up for yourself.Copy !req
718. Why waste time with idiots like that?Copy !req
719. Vincent, don't tell me
how to run my life.Copy !req
720. It's taken me a long time
to get where I am.Copy !req
721. It may not be ideal but, to me,
what I'm doing seems worthwhile.Copy !req
722. And you don't make it any easier.Copy !req
723. I haven't had any sleep for six months.Copy !req
724. When people come to the house,
you insult them.Copy !req
725. Don't I have right to my opinion?Copy !req
726. This is my home.
You have no right to insult my guests.Copy !req
727. Maybe I shouldn't have come to Paris
in the first place.Copy !req
728. Vincent...Copy !req
729. all we've got is
what we can give each other.Copy !req
730. You know how much joy
it would give me to sell your paintings.Copy !req
731. I show them whenever
I get a chance.Copy !req
732. But perhaps you should take some
to some other dealer.Copy !req
733. The more your work's seen the better.Copy !req
734. Go to Père Tanguy.
I'll talk to him about you.Copy !req
735. - Why should I—?
- See what he can do.Copy !req
736. And show him some of your old work,
not just the new stuff.Copy !req
737. Is that your way of saying
the new work's no good?Copy !req
738. Vincent, I'm not gonna argue with you
when you're in this mood.Copy !req
739. - What mood? All I'm trying—
- Good night.Copy !req
740. - Theo!
- Good night!Copy !req
741. Vincent...Copy !req
742. it's all good, all of it.Copy !req
743. The important thing is that one day
it could be sublime.Copy !req
744. But, between then and now,
there's one thing you could do for me.Copy !req
745. A little thing, it's all I ask...Copy !req
746. let me get a night's sleep.Copy !req
747. Oh, it's still the same.Copy !req
748. Nothing's changed
since I left here a year ago.Copy !req
749. That's right. You owed us
112 francs then, and you still do.Copy !req
750. Tanguy, remove your wife.Copy !req
751. Get in the back.Copy !req
752. This man is absolutely correct, Tanguy.Copy !req
753. You cannot handle painters and
woodpeckers too.Copy !req
754. The fact is, my dear friends,
that you are not painters.Copy !req
755. You are tattoo artists.Copy !req
756. You are chemists
with little pots of paint.Copy !req
757. You cover canvases
with colored fleas.Copy !req
758. You are so busy imitating
each other's tricks...Copy !req
759. you've forgotten what
painting is about.Copy !req
760. You all make me sick.Copy !req
761. What doesn't make you sick?
Besides your own work?Copy !req
762. Would you really like to know?Copy !req
763. That.Copy !req
764. Look at that. The clarity, the calm.Copy !req
765. The Japanese paint
as simply as we breathe.Copy !req
766. - They pay for the paints.
- Who's he?Copy !req
767. - Paul Gauguin.
- Do you have to go halfway...Copy !req
768. round the world to find something?Copy !req
769. I don't have to leave this shop.Copy !req
770. Look at that, look at that.Copy !req
771. And that...Copy !req
772. and that.Copy !req
773. - Cézanne?
- Yes, Cézanne.Copy !req
774. - Yes, Cézanne.
- King of the unsalables.Copy !req
775. - I suppose you call this painting?
- Give me that painting.Copy !req
776. Yes. It's direct. It's vigorous.Copy !req
777. - What's your name?
- Vincent Van Gogh.Copy !req
778. He has a statement to make,
and he makes it.Copy !req
779. - Theo's brother?
- Yes.Copy !req
780. Glad to know you. It's honest.Copy !req
781. It owes nothing to anybody.
Nothing.Copy !req
782. Because it has nothing.
No tone, no values—Copy !req
783. No color relations.Copy !req
784. The little men are at it again.
My friend, join me in a drink?Copy !req
785. - What about the 112 francs?
- Lady, go back to your kitchen.Copy !req
786. Get back.Copy !req
787. Ah, you see, down there the
sun invades you, gets into your blood.Copy !req
788. Not that Martinique was a paradise.Copy !req
789. Between hunger and fever
I was lucky to get out alive.Copy !req
790. But, if I could,
I'd go back there tomorrow.Copy !req
791. - How long you been in Paris?
- Over a year.Copy !req
792. How can you stand it? I can't work here.
It strangles me.Copy !req
793. - But where would you go?
- Brittany.Copy !req
794. There's a place up there I can stay.
It's just a hole but it's all I can afford.Copy !req
795. - Wouldn't you miss your friends in Paris?
- Friends?Copy !req
796. A woman or two, maybe.Copy !req
797. When you start as late as I did...Copy !req
798. you find yourself measuring
who and what you give your time to.Copy !req
799. Friends, comforts, family...Copy !req
800. If they interfere with your peace
to work, you cut them off.Copy !req
801. And you spend the rest of your
life wondering if it was worthwhile.Copy !req
802. Oh, I said, "If they're mad
enough to buy impressionist paintings...Copy !req
803. it only proves that they're savages."Copy !req
804. I haven't seen the place looking so neat
since Vincent came to stay.Copy !req
805. What got into him,
cleaning it up like this?Copy !req
806. I do hope he's out.Copy !req
807. Never would get any business
done if he's in.Copy !req
808. What is it?Copy !req
809. From Vincent.Copy !req
810. "I'm sorry for the trouble I've caused and
endlessly grateful for all your kindness.Copy !req
811. I've hung a few paintings
to remind you of me."Copy !req
812. He's gone?Copy !req
813. He's on his way south
to Arles in Provence.Copy !req
814. "I thought it over these past weeks...Copy !req
815. and decided the time's come
to make a change.Copy !req
816. I want to see nature
under a clearer sky.Copy !req
817. I have to work by myself for a while."Copy !req
818. No offense meant, but you'll be better
off without him around your neck.Copy !req
819. - I think I'm the best judge of that.
- No, the worst.Copy !req
820. You've been pushing his paintings and
every time you do, we lose a customer.Copy !req
821. As your employer,
I tell you for your own good...Copy !req
822. your love for Vincent
has blinded your judgment.Copy !req
823. - It's affected your work.
- Don't let's wrangle again about that.Copy !req
824. I'll fight for every painter
who deserves to be recognized.Copy !req
825. And Vincent is one of them. He—Copy !req
826. - He could be the best of them.
- What? You're his brother.Copy !req
827. - You're emotional about him.
- That has nothing to do with it.Copy !req
828. What is it when you brood about him?
When you agonize over his every failure?Copy !req
829. When you support him
to the point of denying yourself?Copy !req
830. You've saved every letter he wrote as—
As though it were a holy scripture.Copy !req
831. Oh, come now, Theo. Don't you
really think you've done enough for him?Copy !req
832. How much is enough...Copy !req
833. for a man who's struggling
with himself the way Vincent is?Copy !req
834. Oh, I know he's crude
and quarrelsome and excitable.Copy !req
835. But inside that tormented head of his,
there's— There's something wonderful.Copy !req
836. In those letters there's a gifted man,
a tender man.Copy !req
837. There's far more passionate
beauty and strength in his work...Copy !req
838. than there is in half the stuff you see
in the museums today.Copy !req
839. I wonder if there'll ever come
a happy time for him.Copy !req
840. It seems impossible for him
to have a quiet life.Copy !req
841. But change may do him good.
Maybe he'll find himself.Copy !req
842. Or will he only find more loneliness?Copy !req
843. This is it.Copy !req
844. At that it's worth more
than you're willing to pay.Copy !req
845. - Anything else?
- No, thanks.Copy !req
846. That'll be 8 francs for the week.Copy !req
847. Get these pictures out of here.
I told you a week ago.Copy !req
848. Don't touch that painting.
Can't you see it's still wet?Copy !req
849. You're getting paint over everything.
That's why I raised your rent.Copy !req
850. You had no right without telling me.Copy !req
851. Whoever heard of
a storage fee to use a landing?Copy !req
852. - Then get your stuff out.
- I will not.Copy !req
853. Then pay me.Copy !req
854. - Allow me.
- Now, don't, don't...Copy !req
855. With your permission.Copy !req
856. - Looks like you're moving.
- I'm getting out of that hellhole.Copy !req
857. - I think you need some help.
- That swine of a landlord.Copy !req
858. Here you are.
I wondered how long you'd stand him.Copy !req
859. Where do you think
you're going with all this?Copy !req
860. I don't know.Copy !req
861. You're gonna have to find
some place before night.Copy !req
862. I'd ask you to stay with me
but it's a bit crowded with a wife...Copy !req
863. - ... and four kids and one on the way.
- Thanks anyway, but...Copy !req
864. How would you like a house?Copy !req
865. - Too expensive.
- Perhaps not.Copy !req
866. Come along. Let me do the talking.Copy !req
867. If there's one thing I hate,
it's landlords.Copy !req
868. Come along, you wouldn't want
a dump like that.Copy !req
869. - Should've been pulled down years ago.
- Wait a minute.Copy !req
870. What are you trying to do to me?
Talking like that about my property.Copy !req
871. Is that what you're looking for,
a house? Oh, this is a fine house.Copy !req
872. My sister lived in it for 17 years,
and then she died. God bless her.Copy !req
873. - That's what I mean.
- Would you want me to show it to you?Copy !req
874. How long would you want it for?Copy !req
875. He won't want it all,
not when he's seen it.Copy !req
876. Roulin, you mind your own business
or I'll report you.Copy !req
877. I'll let you have it at a good price too.
How would you feel like 15 a month?Copy !req
878. You— You stay out of this.Copy !req
879. On top of that,
I'll let you have the use an extra room...Copy !req
880. A house, Theo. I've found a house.Copy !req
881. A place of my own
where I can work without trouble.Copy !req
882. And where there's plenty of room.Copy !req
883. Roulin lent me a mattress to get started,
and I bought some chairs and a bed...Copy !req
884. and a few other things
that were necessary.Copy !req
885. With this, and with what I spent
on paints and canvas...Copy !req
886. my money for the month
is almost gone.Copy !req
887. But it was worth it.Copy !req
888. Oh, Theo, you'd like this house.Copy !req
889. It's yellow on the outside
and filled with sunshine.Copy !req
890. Later, two could live in it.Copy !req
891. One day, perhaps Gauguin will come.Copy !req
892. And then, who knows? This might
turn into a colony of painters.Copy !req
893. I'm up at dawn and out on the road.Copy !req
894. Now that summer's begun, it's all very
different from what it was in the spring.Copy !req
895. But I love it even more.Copy !req
896. Everywhere is old gold,
bronze and copper.Copy !req
897. I wish you could see
these lovely days here, Theo.Copy !req
898. If not, you shall see pictures of them.Copy !req
899. For these colors give me an
extraordinary exultation.Copy !req
900. The whole earth is glowing
under the southern sun.Copy !req
901. Lemon yellow, sulfur yellow,
greenish yellow...Copy !req
902. all under a sky blanched with heat.Copy !req
903. What a country it is.Copy !req
904. It absorbs me so much
that I let myself go...Copy !req
905. never thinking of a single rule.Copy !req
906. I have no doubts, no limitations.Copy !req
907. I'm working like a steam engine,
devouring paints, burning up canvases.Copy !req
908. Whole days go by
without my speaking to anyone.Copy !req
909. And every day, my concentration
becomes more intense.Copy !req
910. My hand more sure.Copy !req
911. I have a power of color in me
that I never had before.Copy !req
912. A sense of breadth and strength.Copy !req
913. The summer has vanished
in a fever of work.Copy !req
914. And now the mistral is blowing.Copy !req
915. Always the wind, restless
and unceasing.Copy !req
916. Sweeping among
the dead leaves in a rage...Copy !req
917. so that I'm forced
to remain indoors.Copy !req
918. Now and then, when the storm
inside me gets too loud...Copy !req
919. I take a glass too much
to distract me.Copy !req
920. I must watch out for my nerves,
I'm getting haggard, I know.Copy !req
921. If I go on this way, some day or other,
there may be a crisis.Copy !req
922. Yet I can't stop.Copy !req
923. Sometimes I work on into the night.Copy !req
924. I'm hardly conscious
of myself anymore.Copy !req
925. And the pictures come to me
as in a dream, with a terrible lucidity.Copy !req
926. - What time did he get here?
- About 4 this morning.Copy !req
927. - His usual, two coffees, three absinthes.
- Did he eat anything?Copy !req
928. What do you think?Copy !req
929. Ah.Copy !req
930. Good morning.Copy !req
931. - Good morning.
- I brought something from your brother.Copy !req
932. What I wanna know is,
when do I get paid?Copy !req
933. I don't mind carrying him for a day or
two. But this time it's over two weeks.Copy !req
934. I must be as crazy as he is.Copy !req
935. What do you think this is,
a reading room?Copy !req
936. What's he owe?Copy !req
937. - Thirteen.
- Well, here's 10. Shut up.Copy !req
938. Now, here, let me give you a hand.Copy !req
939. Come along.Copy !req
940. So...Copy !req
941. Where were you painting last night?Copy !req
942. We were looking for you everywhere,
all over the place. Couldn't find you.Copy !req
943. - Theo's leaving.
- What?Copy !req
944. No, it's good news. He—Copy !req
945. - He's getting married.
- That's wonderful.Copy !req
946. Let's go right back and celebrate.Copy !req
947. Um, do you know the girl?Copy !req
948. She's a Dutch girl.Copy !req
949. He's going to Holland this weekend
to meet her family.Copy !req
950. Oh, Mother will be happy. She—Copy !req
951. She's always wanted one of us
to get married and...Copy !req
952. Well, when you write your brother,
wish him well from me and my family.Copy !req
953. Oh, Yes. Yes, I will.Copy !req
954. Thank you.Copy !req
955. "But this doesn't mean that I don't wish
you both happiness with all my heart.Copy !req
956. With your wife,
you won't be lonely anymore.Copy !req
957. Your house won't be empty."Copy !req
958. He must be so alone down there.Copy !req
959. You two have always been so close.Copy !req
960. Is there anything we can do, Theo?
To help him?Copy !req
961. I wish I knew.Copy !req
962. If only I could sell something of his.
Just one. That would be a help.Copy !req
963. Heaven knows I've tried.Copy !req
964. He asks about Gauguin again too.Copy !req
965. He wants me to persuade him
to go down there.Copy !req
966. - Gauguin?
- It might work.Copy !req
967. When they were here last winter,
they seemed to get on.Copy !req
968. Vincent was one of the few people
Paul didn't attack.Copy !req
969. If they were together, if Vincent
could have someone with him to whom...Copy !req
970. he could pour out his heart,
another painter.Copy !req
971. Do you think Gauguin would do it?Copy !req
972. He might.Copy !req
973. I'd have to send him
some money.Copy !req
974. Enough to pay his debts in Brittany
and get him down to Arles.Copy !req
975. It could be the solution
for both of them.Copy !req
976. Vincent.Copy !req
977. - Vincent.
- Paul?Copy !req
978. Paul!Copy !req
979. - You're here. You're really here.
- Yes, I'm here.Copy !req
980. You're early. Theo told me
you wouldn't come until—Copy !req
981. Let me take these things.
Come up. Come on up, Paul.Copy !req
982. You have trouble finding the place?
Your things are here and canvases.Copy !req
983. They arrived the day before yesterday.Copy !req
984. Oh, I— I fixed this room up for you.Copy !req
985. - It's very nice.
- Thanks.Copy !req
986. I painted them for you.Copy !req
987. Well, that's very
friendly of you, Vincent.Copy !req
988. - That's very friendly.
- Have you had anything to eat?Copy !req
989. Come on downstairs.
I've got something on the stove.Copy !req
990. I can't wait to see the things
you did in Britanny.Copy !req
991. Well...Copy !req
992. I think you'll be interested.Copy !req
993. - The way you wrote about them.
- I may have hit something there I—Copy !req
994. - I never quite got before.
- Sounds wonderful.Copy !req
995. It was all I could do to keep from
opening them up and looking at them.Copy !req
996. - Be ready in just another minute.
- Take your time.Copy !req
997. Well, I see you've been working.Copy !req
998. That's not difficult in this part
of the world.Copy !req
999. I can't tell you, Paul—
Well, you'll see for yourself.Copy !req
1000. In the morning, you open the window...Copy !req
1001. see there's the green of the gardens.Copy !req
1002. Wait till you see the yellow fields
at noon under the full sun.Copy !req
1003. And the light, you wouldn't believe it...Copy !req
1004. all the time
these yellows are really here.Copy !req
1005. Everywhere you look,
there's something to paint.Copy !req
1006. What an artist like you
would do out here.Copy !req
1007. - We'll go out this afternoon.
- Wait a minute.Copy !req
1008. I'm not a painter that gets off a
train and turns out a sunlight effect...Copy !req
1009. - ... before he's even unpacked his bags.
- Paul...Copy !req
1010. show me the Brittany paintings, huh?Copy !req
1011. There's plenty of time for that.Copy !req
1012. - Come on, let's eat.
- All right.Copy !req
1013. There.Copy !req
1014. A little heavy
on the turpentine, isn't it?Copy !req
1015. What'd you do,
boil some old paint tubes?Copy !req
1016. - Smells like it.
- Vincent, from now on, you— You—Copy !req
1017. - You better let me do the cooking.
- All right.Copy !req
1018. Well, even my worst enemies
won't deny me that talent.Copy !req
1019. Vincent, do you really
have to live like this?Copy !req
1020. - What do you mean?
- Look. How can you stand it?Copy !req
1021. The paints, the brushes, how
can you work? It's a mess.Copy !req
1022. - I've been so busy—
- If we'll live together let's start right.Copy !req
1023. Let's get this place in some order.Copy !req
1024. - Show me the paintings.
- That can wait.Copy !req
1025. If there's one thing I can't stand,
it's confusion, mental or physical.Copy !req
1026. Now, this will have to
last us till the first.Copy !req
1027. After that, everything Theo sends us,
your allowance...Copy !req
1028. his advance on my
paintings, goes into this box.Copy !req
1029. Anything we spend we write down.Copy !req
1030. So much for food, so much for drink,
for tobacco and other relaxation.Copy !req
1031. So there'll be no more starving
at the end of each month. Understood?Copy !req
1032. Understood.Copy !req
1033. I still can't believe you're here.Copy !req
1034. You know, before you came here,
I was a little frightened.Copy !req
1035. See, I'd been alone so long, that—Copy !req
1036. I hope you, too, will find
what you want here, Paul...Copy !req
1037. a chance to create in peace.Copy !req
1038. This could be just the beginning.
We could get other painters here.Copy !req
1039. Make a colony of it,
a studio of the south...Copy !req
1040. with you at its head.Copy !req
1041. - A father superior?
- As its guiding force.Copy !req
1042. I thought maybe we'd ask Bernard and
Lautrec, only he'd never leave Paris.Copy !req
1043. - Signac—
- Oh, haven't you heard?Copy !req
1044. I have dismissed Mr. Signac from
the legion of my admirers. He bores me.Copy !req
1045. - Say, what about Guillaumin and Seurat?
- You know what I think of Seurat.Copy !req
1046. - He's so ill. This will do him good.
- It wouldn't do me good.Copy !req
1047. I don't want that
kind of painting around me.Copy !req
1048. Vincent, I've just spent a year
beating my brains out.Copy !req
1049. I sacrificed everything,
execution, effect...Copy !req
1050. all the things that
come easiest to me, for a style.Copy !req
1051. A style that'll convey
the mood of what I see.Copy !req
1052. The idea without regard
for concrete reality.Copy !req
1053. - What do you paint, then?
- What's in my head.Copy !req
1054. Art's an abstraction,
not a picture book.Copy !req
1055. A painting is a flat surface
covered with lines and colors...Copy !req
1056. arranged in certain order.Copy !req
1057. But, Theo— I mean, Paul, what about
the arrangement that exists in nature?Copy !req
1058. I choose to disregard nature.
What I'm after are harmonies.Copy !req
1059. Harmonies of pure color, deliberately
composed and carefully calculated...Copy !req
1060. that move you as—
As music moves you.Copy !req
1061. But then you deny
the greatest artists of all:Copy !req
1062. - Rembrandt, Rubens, Delacroix, Millet—
- Millet?Copy !req
1063. Millet? That calendar artist...Copy !req
1064. with his dung-colored tones
and sentimental insipidities.Copy !req
1065. How dare you say that.
Millet is one of the few artists...Copy !req
1066. that ever really captured
the human spirit. Here.Copy !req
1067. And the dignity of toil.Copy !req
1068. Millet uses paint to express
the word of God.Copy !req
1069. He should've been a preacher,
not a painter.Copy !req
1070. If there's one thing I despise,
it's emotionalism in painting.Copy !req
1071. Vincent, painting is for painters.Copy !req
1072. Like your friend Degas...Copy !req
1073. who's done nothing but
ballet dancers and racehorses...Copy !req
1074. - ... the last 10 years.
- Learn from him.Copy !req
1075. - You can learn control.
- I don't want control.Copy !req
1076. I'm not afraid of emotion.
When I paint the sun...Copy !req
1077. I wanna make people feel it
revolving, giving off light and heat.Copy !req
1078. When I paint a peasant, I wanna feel the
sun pouring in him like it does into corn.Copy !req
1079. Is that what you think? You overload
your brush, slap paint on like putty.Copy !req
1080. When you make trees
writhe like snakes...Copy !req
1081. and your sun explode over the canvas?Copy !req
1082. With all your emotion,
what I see when I look at your work...Copy !req
1083. - ... is just that you paint too fast.
- You look too fast!Copy !req
1084. Whatever you say, brigadier.Copy !req
1085. Maybe you're right.Copy !req
1086. Maybe we need another drink.Copy !req
1087. I'm sorry, Paul, I—Copy !req
1088. Look, Paul, when I painted
The Night Cafe, I tried to show evil...Copy !req
1089. the most violent passions
of humanity.Copy !req
1090. I painted it blood red
and dark yellow...Copy !req
1091. and a green billiard table in the middle.Copy !req
1092. Four lemon-yellow lamps
with a glare of orange and green.Copy !req
1093. In an atmosphere of pale sulfur,
like a furnace.Copy !req
1094. I tried to show a place...Copy !req
1095. where a man can ruin himself...Copy !req
1096. go mad...Copy !req
1097. commit a crime.Copy !req
1098. What's all this talk
about Arlesian women?Copy !req
1099. I haven't seen a good one yet.Copy !req
1100. They must have heard you were coming
and they locked them up.Copy !req
1101. Wait till you see, Paul.
There's something about...Copy !req
1102. the way they carry themselves, even—Copy !req
1103. Even the old ones,
a certain classic grace and dignity.Copy !req
1104. Dignity? I'm talking about women,
man, women.Copy !req
1105. I like them fat and vicious and not
too smart. Nothing spiritual, either.Copy !req
1106. To have to say "I love you,"
would break my teeth.Copy !req
1107. I don't wanna be loved.Copy !req
1108. You really mean that, Paul.Copy !req
1109. Let's get out of here.
Show me the rest of the town.Copy !req
1110. You pig. Kill him. Tear him apart.Copy !req
1111. You didn't tell me
the ballet was in town.Copy !req
1112. Get him! Tear him apart!Copy !req
1113. Here, wait a minute, wait
a minute. Wait a minute. You're tired.Copy !req
1114. That's more like it.Copy !req
1115. Now the town's coming to life.Copy !req
1116. Come on. Stop it. Stop it.
Get her out of here.Copy !req
1117. Get her out of here. And, you...Copy !req
1118. I don't want any more
trouble in this place. See?Copy !req
1119. Come on. Now, get down.Copy !req
1120. I told the captain
I wouldn't return until tomorrow.Copy !req
1121. - Pierre.
- Hello, Vincent, my friend.Copy !req
1122. - Hello, redhead, where have you been?
- Hello, Rachel.Copy !req
1123. - I thought you must have gone away.
- No, I've been working.Copy !req
1124. What's the matter?
Don't you like me anymore?Copy !req
1125. My friend's come to town. I've been
getting the place ready for him.Copy !req
1126. - That tough.
- No, he's a painter, like me.Copy !req
1127. Thanks, sir.Copy !req
1128. - He's not like you, redhead.
- Hey, Vincent.Copy !req
1129. Look, a masterpiece.
Direct from the salons.Copy !req
1130. See? Symbolism.Copy !req
1131. Better send it to Theo
before the Louvre grabs it.Copy !req
1132. Paul, this is Rachel.Copy !req
1133. Vincent, why do I do it?Copy !req
1134. Here I pride myself
on my sense of logic and order...Copy !req
1135. and inside I'm a savage.Copy !req
1136. I have this—
This attraction to violence.Copy !req
1137. Violence makes me sick. I have too
much inside me, I'm afraid of it.Copy !req
1138. Ah, that's why I let it out
before it hurts me.Copy !req
1139. Last winter, in Martinique...Copy !req
1140. I got into a fight with some sailors.
I was in the hospital for a month.Copy !req
1141. But it was worth it.Copy !req
1142. That piddling brawl there made me feel
better than I have in weeks. I know why.Copy !req
1143. Because suddenly there's something in
front of you, something you can hit at.Copy !req
1144. He stands there, you smash his teeth
in or he does it to you.Copy !req
1145. Either way, it's all right.
There's a decision.Copy !req
1146. - Mmm. Two absinthes.
- Right away.Copy !req
1147. Three absinthes.Copy !req
1148. - Is everything all right?
- Yes, brigadier.Copy !req
1149. Dear Theo, I'm so happy
to have Gauguin here...Copy !req
1150. not to be alone anymore.Copy !req
1151. It's of tremendous value to me
to see him work.Copy !req
1152. He's a very great artist
and a good friend.Copy !req
1153. Paul.Copy !req
1154. It doesn't seem to work.Copy !req
1155. It doesn't work.Copy !req
1156. - Paul, could you come and take a look?
- Vincent, I'm trying to catch this light.Copy !req
1157. I remember what you said. I softened
my colors. I try to control them.Copy !req
1158. - Then I lose everything.
- Go back and try again.Copy !req
1159. That's what I mean.
You see how pale and thin that sky is?Copy !req
1160. You use the same brushstrokes
all over.Copy !req
1161. It's got no texture,
no energy, it's all flat.Copy !req
1162. That's the way I see it.Copy !req
1163. Flat.Copy !req
1164. We argue, of course,
mainly about painting.Copy !req
1165. Our arguments are so electric I come
out of them often with my brain tired.Copy !req
1166. Like a run-down battery.Copy !req
1167. What are you nervous about?Copy !req
1168. We should be out there working.
Look at that sunlight.Copy !req
1169. - Yeah, listen to that wind.
- Wind doesn't show in a painting.Copy !req
1170. - What about it?
- I'm doing fine right here.Copy !req
1171. Or I would be,
if you'd only light someplace.Copy !req
1172. I'm tired of being cooped up here.Copy !req
1173. It wouldn't hurt you
to work inside for once.Copy !req
1174. Use your imagination. Invent.Copy !req
1175. I mean, why should I invent here?
Nature does it so much better out there.Copy !req
1176. Go out there, then.
Who's stopping you?Copy !req
1177. This is ridiculous.
I can't work like this.Copy !req
1178. Tie down your easel.Copy !req
1179. No wonder they call you crazy
around here.Copy !req
1180. Come on, Vincent,
let's get out of here.Copy !req
1181. Give it up.
You can't paint in this gale.Copy !req
1182. - I've done it plenty of times.
- Yes, I've seen the results.Copy !req
1183. I'm going back. I'm sick of all this.Copy !req
1184. The sun burns the eyes out of your head.
The stinking mistral blows you to pieces.Copy !req
1185. I'm sick of this whole miserable
countryside. And that— That house too.Copy !req
1186. I don't know what I'm doing
or why I ever came.Copy !req
1187. If that's the way you feel,
then why not leave.Copy !req
1188. Do you want to know why?
Because I haven't got the money.Copy !req
1189. Paul. Paul. Paul.Copy !req
1190. - Our money from Theo.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1191. - Can I—? Can I pour you a drink, Paul?
- No, thanks.Copy !req
1192. Paul, see, all the way home, I—Copy !req
1193. I kept thinking of—Copy !req
1194. I wondered, Paul,
if only we'd tried a little.Copy !req
1195. If we'd made some effort
to remain friends, it—Copy !req
1196. - If it wouldn't be better for both of us.
- I see you finished it.Copy !req
1197. Well, yes, because, Paul,
when you look back...Copy !req
1198. so much of life is wasted
in loneliness.Copy !req
1199. There's not one of us
that doesn't need friends...Copy !req
1200. - ... companionship, attachments.
- I can do without attachments.Copy !req
1201. - I've learned to avoid them.
- Well, how can you say that, Paul?Copy !req
1202. I mean, even you,
you have your family.Copy !req
1203. Do you ever think of them?
Your children, you see them so seldom.Copy !req
1204. Mind your own business.Copy !req
1205. Well, Paul, all I mean is that...Copy !req
1206. you, too, must— Must have times
when you had a terrible—Copy !req
1207. Why don't you shut up?Copy !req
1208. If you have to slobber,
don't do it over me.Copy !req
1209. You'll have no trouble
finding subjects.Copy !req
1210. You mourn over a pair of old shoes.Copy !req
1211. You cry when you read
Uncle Tom's Cabin.Copy !req
1212. You bleed with Millet
over the nobility of toil.Copy !req
1213. For weeks I've been listening to that
slop and I'm tired of it.Copy !req
1214. What do you know about toil?Copy !req
1215. When have you done a stroke
of manual labor in your life?Copy !req
1216. Well, I have.Copy !req
1217. I've dug ditches
in the stinking heat of the tropics.Copy !req
1218. I've worked on the docks in weather
so cold my hands froze to the ropes.Copy !req
1219. And I can tell you there's nothing
noble or beautiful about it.Copy !req
1220. I did it so I could go on painting.Copy !req
1221. I didn't have a brother to support me.Copy !req
1222. Don't ever do that again.Copy !req
1223. - Paul, where are you going?
- Getting out before one of us gets killed.Copy !req
1224. - Don't go.
- I'll be back for my things.Copy !req
1225. Don't go. If you only knew
how lonely I was before you came here.Copy !req
1226. I know all about loneliness,
only I don't whine about it.Copy !req
1227. What's your name?Copy !req
1228. Gauguin.Copy !req
1229. Your friend is in there.Copy !req
1230. Dying.Copy !req
1231. - Why haven't you sent for the doctor?
- There's one on the way.Copy !req
1232. What happened?Copy !req
1233. His ear's been slashed off.Copy !req
1234. - What went on last night?
- I don't know. I wasn't here.Copy !req
1235. You live here.Copy !req
1236. Why did you leave?Copy !req
1237. - Did you two have a fight?
- Look, I—Copy !req
1238. The doctor is here.Copy !req
1239. - Inspector.
- Right this way, doctor.Copy !req
1240. - When did you find him?
- An hour ago.Copy !req
1241. - Has he been conscious at all?
- Not at all.Copy !req
1242. It's a wonder he didn't bleed to death.Copy !req
1243. Self-inflicted, doctor?
- Looks that way.Copy !req
1244. What do you think, doc?Copy !req
1245. Well, don't worry.
You won't have a corpse on your hands.Copy !req
1246. The thing is to get it cauterized
and cleaned.Copy !req
1247. - Gendarme, water and towels, please.
- Right away, sir.Copy !req
1248. You might as well know,
that man's unbalanced.Copy !req
1249. Don't take my word for it,
ask anyone around.Copy !req
1250. Last night he got worse.Copy !req
1251. Just my being here
seemed to drive him out of his mind.Copy !req
1252. If I'm here when he comes to and he
sees me after all that's happened...Copy !req
1253. it could be fatal to him.Copy !req
1254. Will you need me for anything more?Copy !req
1255. No, I guess not.Copy !req
1256. I'll notify his brother.Copy !req
1257. What do you want here?Copy !req
1258. Nothing better to do than hang around,
cluttering up the square?Copy !req
1259. Why don't you go home
and leave the man alone?Copy !req
1260. He's sick and he needs rest.Copy !req
1261. This is no sideshow.
You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.Copy !req
1262. Go on home, all of you.Copy !req
1263. Crazy redhead.Copy !req
1264. - Leave me alone.
- Redhead. Come on, redhead.Copy !req
1265. Leave me alone!Copy !req
1266. Come on. What happened?
Do you want another ear?Copy !req
1267. Vincent.Copy !req
1268. I've just been with Dr. Rey.Copy !req
1269. You're doing very well.Copy !req
1270. Quite soon now
you'll be able to travel.Copy !req
1271. - Johanna and I want you to—
- Theo.Copy !req
1272. I want to have myself committed.Copy !req
1273. I wanna go to an asylum.Copy !req
1274. I have to, Theo.Copy !req
1275. One more of these attacks could leave
me helpless like a crab on its back...Copy !req
1276. unable to even—
To do away with myself.Copy !req
1277. Vincent...Copy !req
1278. you could come and live with us
in Paris and have a reasonable life.Copy !req
1279. We'll see that
none of this happens again.Copy !req
1280. How, Theo?Copy !req
1281. Will you and Johanna
take turns watching me...Copy !req
1282. to make sure
the symptoms aren't coming back?Copy !req
1283. When your baby's born...Copy !req
1284. I'm a danger to others.Copy !req
1285. I'm a danger to myself.Copy !req
1286. Believe me...Copy !req
1287. I'll be better off in an asylum.Copy !req
1288. Vincent, don't.Copy !req
1289. You mustn't think like that.Copy !req
1290. Find a place for me to go, please.Copy !req
1291. Don't be sad.Copy !req
1292. It won't be for long.Copy !req
1293. Just long enough for me
to find a little order in my life.Copy !req
1294. A little peace.Copy !req
1295. Yes, your brother
has stated the case most clearly.Copy !req
1296. Including the fact that you have
voluntarily committed yourself here.Copy !req
1297. Now, you know,
mental disease is no different...Copy !req
1298. from any other ailment
you might have contracted.Copy !req
1299. These hallucinations you speak of...Copy !req
1300. once you recognize them as normal
accompaniments of disturbances...Copy !req
1301. of this sort, whether—
Whether congenital or acquired.Copy !req
1302. Once you accept your state for what
it is, half the terror has gone out of it.Copy !req
1303. You do see that, don't you?Copy !req
1304. Beyond that...Copy !req
1305. beyond that peace and rest.Copy !req
1306. Regular routine
in agreeable surroundings.Copy !req
1307. You know, in this entire institution,
at the moment...Copy !req
1308. we've no more
than 11 male patients.Copy !req
1309. The food is plain but healthy.
And above all it—Copy !req
1310. It is quiet. Yes.Copy !req
1311. Yes, it— It is quiet.Copy !req
1312. Ah, now, here is our superintendent.Copy !req
1313. This is Mr. Vincent Van Gogh
from Holland.Copy !req
1314. Now, why don't you take
Mr. Van Gogh to his room...Copy !req
1315. let him know our rules and habits—Copy !req
1316. No, no, we'll—Copy !req
1317. We'll store those away for you for a
little while until you see what you need.Copy !req
1318. Yes.Copy !req
1319. Meanwhile, any time you need me...Copy !req
1320. —mutilated his left ear.Copy !req
1321. In view of the above...Copy !req
1322. and in the light of my examination
of the patient...Copy !req
1323. it is my professional opinion...Copy !req
1324. that it will be necessary
for Mr. Van Gogh...Copy !req
1325. to undergo extended observation
and treatment in this institution.Copy !req
1326. Signed, Dr. Peyron.
Dated Saint-Rémy, 9th of May, 1889.Copy !req
1327. Van Gogh, Vincent, June the 14th.Copy !req
1328. The patient's condition
appears satisfactory...Copy !req
1329. with continued improvement.Copy !req
1330. Continues to suffer, however,
from a condition of...Copy !req
1331. chronic inertia accompanied by
symptoms of extreme terror.Copy !req
1332. Would you like me
to open the window?Copy !req
1333. The view is lovely from here.Copy !req
1334. General condition of patient...Copy !req
1335. fair.Copy !req
1336. Nonviolent.Copy !req
1337. He has requested
that his painting equipment...Copy !req
1338. and other personal effects
be placed in his room.Copy !req
1339. Request granted.Copy !req
1340. It's beautiful.Copy !req
1341. But the mower, is he imaginary?
There's no one in that field.Copy !req
1342. Oh, that's just any man
struggling in the heat to finish his work.Copy !req
1343. That's the figure of death.Copy !req
1344. It doesn't seem a sad death.Copy !req
1345. Oh, it's not, Sister.Copy !req
1346. It happens in the bright daylight...Copy !req
1347. with the sun flooding everything in—Copy !req
1348. In a— In a light of pure gold.Copy !req
1349. It would appear that painting is...Copy !req
1350. beneficial...Copy !req
1351. perhaps even necessary
for this patient's well-being.Copy !req
1352. Provided, of course,
that he is not permitted...Copy !req
1353. to indulge in those...Copy !req
1354. excesses of work and emotion...Copy !req
1355. that induced his former crisis.Copy !req
1356. This latest seizure...Copy !req
1357. was the most severe...Copy !req
1358. and prolonged...Copy !req
1359. that your brother has suffered
to date.Copy !req
1360. As a result...Copy !req
1361. of constant attention...Copy !req
1362. and observation...Copy !req
1363. he is today approaching...Copy !req
1364. physical recovery. He now
expresses the desire to leave...Copy !req
1365. this institution...Copy !req
1366. with the intention of
taking up residence in the north.Copy !req
1367. And since you...Copy !req
1368. support him in this request...Copy !req
1369. he will be discharged...Copy !req
1370. as soon as he is
considered fit to travel.Copy !req
1371. - Vincent.
- Hello, Johanna.Copy !req
1372. - It's good to see you.
- It's about time.Copy !req
1373. You're just as pretty
as I thought you'd be.Copy !req
1374. Don't you think he looks well, Theo?Copy !req
1375. - He looks better than I do.
- Where's that baby?Copy !req
1376. - When do I get to see him?
- He's asleep.Copy !req
1377. But since he's your namesake,
you can go in.Copy !req
1378. You try and keep me out.Copy !req
1379. I brought him a little present.
I hope he likes it.Copy !req
1380. There's your nephew.Copy !req
1381. Oh, he's a real Van Gogh.Copy !req
1382. When Willemien was here...Copy !req
1383. she said he looked more
like Father than anyone.Copy !req
1384. There's some of Johanna in him.Copy !req
1385. Look at those hands.
See how well-behaved he is.Copy !req
1386. Just wait till he gets hungry.Copy !req
1387. Vincent, are you all right?Copy !req
1388. Come sit down.Copy !req
1389. He'll be all right.Copy !req
1390. I— I— I'm fine, I...Copy !req
1391. - I was dizzy for a moment. I—
You're tired.Copy !req
1392. - I'll get you some coffee.
- Oh, thanks, Johanna.Copy !req
1393. No, I'm all right, really.
It was a long trip.Copy !req
1394. I, uh...Copy !req
1395. I left the best news until you got here.Copy !req
1396. - Your painting of The Red Vineyard.
- Well, what about it?Copy !req
1397. - It sold for 400 francs.
- Oh, who bought it?Copy !req
1398. A painter, Anna Bock.
She lives in Brussels.Copy !req
1399. Oh, that's fine. I— I'm glad—Copy !req
1400. Theo, I...Copy !req
1401. I had no idea
I'd sent you so much stuff.Copy !req
1402. It certainly adds up.Copy !req
1403. I've hardly given you room
to move around.Copy !req
1404. Well, we still have some space
to squeeze a few people in here.Copy !req
1405. As a matter of fact, I was thinking of
asking some of your friends over tonight.Copy !req
1406. - Where's Paul?
- He's in Brittany.Copy !req
1407. But Lautrec, Pissarro, Bernard,
they all want to see you.Copy !req
1408. We ought to celebrate your first sale.Copy !req
1409. - Or would you rather leave it till later?
- No, no, make it tonight. I—Copy !req
1410. I think the sooner
I get settled in Auvers, the better.Copy !req
1411. No, it isn't as if
I were going a long ways off.Copy !req
1412. Why, you can all come out
and see me on Sunday.Copy !req
1413. Is everything set there
with Dr. Gachet, is he expecting me?Copy !req
1414. Pissarro made all the arrangements.
They were here together last week.Copy !req
1415. - Did they see my new things?
- Oh, Gachet got so excited.Copy !req
1416. He wouldn't leave
until I'd lent him a couple.Copy !req
1417. Theo...Copy !req
1418. - ... did you explain to him about me?
- Yes, Vincent, I did.Copy !req
1419. He seems very confident.Copy !req
1420. Oh, thanks, Johanna.
Good Dutch cookies.Copy !req
1421. Oh, I don't understand you, Theo.Copy !req
1422. With such fine Dutch cooking
in the house...Copy !req
1423. you know, it's about time you put
some flesh on those bones of yours.Copy !req
1424. - Mmm.
- I'm really very hopeful, Vincent.Copy !req
1425. Dr. Gachet's got a very good name
and he says that...Copy !req
1426. Dr. Gachet...Copy !req
1427. you see, that's what I have to know.
Will there be warning?Copy !req
1428. - Will I have time to—?
- About those seizures of yours...Copy !req
1429. do you want my opinion?
Forget them completely.Copy !req
1430. Tell yourself you're finished with them
and work boldly and joyously.Copy !req
1431. Vincent, you don't know
how lucky you are...Copy !req
1432. to have done one painting
like that cypress in there...Copy !req
1433. or those sunflowers that your brother
showed me. I'd give 10 years of my life.Copy !req
1434. Don't you like your wine?Copy !req
1435. Oh, I— I don't drink much these days.Copy !req
1436. - Dr. Gachet—
- Yes, for a painter...Copy !req
1437. work is the only medicine there is.
And this is the place for it.Copy !req
1438. Come in, come in.Copy !req
1439. Cézanne's, do you recognize it?Copy !req
1440. He painted it right in this room.
And that is this house.Copy !req
1441. He painted that
from across the street.Copy !req
1442. Yes, as a matter of fact, there's—
There's hardly a canvas here that...Copy !req
1443. wasn't done right in this house
or within 100 yards of it.Copy !req
1444. Have you seen this Daumier?
It's a wonder.Copy !req
1445. Strong, isn't it?Copy !req
1446. Yes, he came here
many times, Daumier.Copy !req
1447. He was a strange one.Copy !req
1448. So you see, when I tell you that
I understand the artistic temperament...Copy !req
1449. When Manet was dying, they—
They called me in for consultation.Copy !req
1450. They wanted to amputate.Copy !req
1451. I said, "No. No, not for a man like that."
But they wouldn't listen.Copy !req
1452. - Lunch is served, doctor.
- Good, Therese.Copy !req
1453. You can put it on the table now.Copy !req
1454. - We'll be right out.
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
1455. - Guillaumin.
- It's a beauty, isn't it?Copy !req
1456. If you like, I'll take you out
and show you where he painted it.Copy !req
1457. I wanted him to join us at Arles but—Copy !req
1458. - Oh, look, it's warped.
- Is it?Copy !req
1459. You better have it framed.Copy !req
1460. I was meaning to take it in.
Well, I will. I'll do it tomorrow.Copy !req
1461. Dear Theo:Copy !req
1462. I've seen Dr. Gachet.Copy !req
1463. He's a pleasant man.Copy !req
1464. He has some good paintings
in his house.Copy !req
1465. He wants me to do his portrait but...Copy !req
1466. as for his helping me...Copy !req
1467. I'm afraid we mustn't
hope for too much.Copy !req
1468. When the blind lead the blind...Copy !req
1469. don't they both fall in the ditch?Copy !req
1470. Oh, Mr. Vincent...Copy !req
1471. at what time would you like
your breakfast in the morning?Copy !req
1472. Well, don't worry about that,
I'll be out early, before you get up.Copy !req
1473. Just leave some bread
and some cold coffee. That'll be fine.Copy !req
1474. Gachet is right about one thing.
This place is beautiful.Copy !req
1475. It tempts me to paint,
and the work goes well.Copy !req
1476. You'd think being a doctor and
seeing so much of pain and suffering...Copy !req
1477. that I've got problems
enough for one man.Copy !req
1478. But, no, I go around founding societies
and joining groups.Copy !req
1479. And then this—
This passion of mine for arts.Copy !req
1480. Besides portraits,
I've been doing some landscapes.Copy !req
1481. I have a feeling of being surer
of my brush than ever before.Copy !req
1482. So I work in haste from day to day...Copy !req
1483. as a miner does when
he knows he's facing disaster.Copy !req
1484. It's impossible.Copy !req
1485. It's impossible.Copy !req
1486. I can make a joke that
this whole sorry business...Copy !req
1487. is worth it for the trouble
I've caused you.Copy !req
1488. You... At least you've gotten back
the cost of paint and canvases.Copy !req
1489. It doesn't matter.Copy !req
1490. - Is the baby really better?
- Yes.Copy !req
1491. We all worried about nothing. He was
just teething, that was all the trouble.Copy !req
1492. I hope he has a quieter soul than mine.Copy !req
1493. Am I sinking?Copy !req
1494. Sinking.Copy !req
1495. Theo.Copy !req
1496. Theo.Copy !req
1497. I'd like to go home.Copy !req
1498. My own brother.Copy !req
1499. My poor, poor brother.Copy !req
1500. It doesn't seem a sad death.Copy !req
1501. Oh, it's not, Sister.Copy !req
1502. It happens in the bright daylight,
the sun flooding everything...Copy !req
1503. in a light of pure gold.Copy !req