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“I am not working for myself alone, I believe in the absolute necessity for a new art of color, of design, and - of the artistic life..
— Vincent van Gogh
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Letter to Theo, Spring 1888; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935, (letter 469) p. 22
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