Vincent van Gogh, "Wheatfield with Crows" (1890), Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Feeling and love for nature sooner or later find a response from people who are interested in art. It is the painter’s duty to be entirely absorbed by nature and to use all his intelligence to express sentiment in his work, so that it becomes intelligible to other people. To work for the market is, in my opinion, not exactly the right way, but on the contrary involves deceiving the amateurs. And true painters have not done so. Rather, the sympathy they received sooner or later came because of their sincerity. This is all I know about it, and I do not think I need know more.
- Letter of Vincent van Gogh, 1888
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