Vincent part eight

From a letter to Anthon van Rappard, 22 - 29 October 1883:
Well, today I went to visit the place where the dustmen dump the garbage, etc. Lord, how beautiful that is - for Buckmann, for instance. Tomorrow I shall get some interesting objects from this Refuse Dump - including some broken street lamps - rusted and twisted - on view - or to pose for me, if you like the expression better. The dustman will bring them around. That collection of discarded buckets, baskets, kettles, soldiers' mess kettles, oil cans, iron wire, street lamps, stovepipes was something out of a fairy tale by Andersen.

I like how he looks at things, sees beauty in things that are old and broken and rusted...I can see that in his art as well, the way he looks at the ordinary and finds the sublime.  I want to learn to see people that way, I think.

http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/11/R28.htm