now I am an insignificant one, but you see i am not sufficiently ambitious for that fame to set a match to the powder… you are a good enough judge of painting to see and understand what i may have of originality, and also to see the uselessness of presenting what i am doing to the modern public, because the others surpass me in clearness of touch. that is more the fault of wind and circumstances, compared to what I could do without the mistral and without the fatal conditions of vanished youth and comparative poverty.” the complete letters of vincent van gogh, unabridged, annotated, and illustrated. well done.