:56:04
"Have to work by myself for a while."
:56:06
No offense meant, but you'll be better off
without him around your neck.
:56:10
I think I'm the best judge of that.
:56:12
No, the worst.
You've been pushing his paintings.
:56:14
And every time you do that,
we lose a customer.
:56:17
As your employer,
I tell you for your own good...
:56:19
your love for Vincent has blinded
your judgment. It's affected your work.
:56:22
Please don't let's wrangle again
about that.
:56:24
I'll fight for every good painter
who deserves to be recognized...
:56:27
and Vincent is one of them.
He could be the best of them.
:56:30
What? Well, you're his brother.
:56:33
- You're emotional about him.
- That has nothing to do with it.
:56:36
What is it when you brood about him?
When you agonize over his every failure?
:56:40
When you support him
to the point of denying yourself?
:56:43
You've saved every letter he wrote
as though it were Holy Scripture.
:56:47
Come now, Theo. Don't you really think
you've done enough for him?
:56:52
How much is enough...
:56:55
for a man who's struggling with himself
the way Vincent is?
:56:58
I know he's crude, quarrelsome,
and excitable...
:57:02
but inside that tormented head of his
there's something wonderful.
:57:05
In those letters, there's a gifted man,
a tender man...
:57:09
and there's far more passionate beauty
and strength in his work...
:57:12
than there is in half the stuff
you see in the museums today.
:57:17
Wonder if there'll ever come
a happy time for him.
:57:19
It seems impossible for him
to have a quiet life.
:57:21
The change may do him good.
Maybe he'll find himself.
:57:25
Or will he only find more loneliness?
:57:45
This is it.
:57:46
At that, it's worth
more than you're willing to pay.
:57:50
- Anything else?
- No, thanks.
:57:52
That'll be 8 francs for the week.