"So Many Magnificent Subjects"

"I have so many plans in my head, and the autumn promises to give so many magnificent subjects, that I simply do not know if I am going to start five canvases or ten. It will be just as it was in the spring with the orchards in bloom, there will be no end of subjects....

"I hope to have improved a little in quality when I prepare the next batch. I am doing comparatively less, and going back over them longer."

-- Vincent van Gogh, letter to his brother Theo from Arles, 9 September 1888.

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