“You're too close to your model.”

— Anton Mauve

Quote of Mauve, teaching Vincent van Gogh, c. End of Dec. 1881 in The Hague; as cited by Vincent van Gogh in his letter to brother Theo http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let193/letter.html, from Etten, c. Friday, 23 December 1881]
Vincent decided then to become a painter and asked his older cousin-in-law Anton Mauve to teach him
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