Why Gogh obsesses about Cypresses? The recent show in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first show that focuses on trees and his life during that time.

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Quotes from Van Gogh

“As for ideas, I have no others except to think that a wheatfield or cypress are well worth the effort of looking at them from close at hand.”

“The cypresses still preoccupy me…

Because it astonishes me that no one 

Has yet done them as I see them. 

Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo Van Gogh, 1889

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