Critics on Van Gogh

Question 1

‘It’s a question of picking out what one wants from nature’

Answer 1

Van Gogh Himself

Question 2

‘have tilled the earth themselves with these hands they are putting in the dish, and so it speaks of manual labour and — that they have thus honestly earned their food.’

Answer 2

Van Gogh in letter to Theo on his work ‘The Potato Eaters’ 1885