Thursday, April 23, 2009

Little Emotions

Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), Self-Portrait With a Straw Hat and Artist's Smock, 1887. Oil on cardboard, 40.8 x 32.7 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Stichting).

“Don't let's forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives, and that we obey them without knowing it.”

~ Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo