...
What am I in the eyes of most people?
- a nobody,
or an eccentric and disagreeable man
- somebody who has no position in society
and never will have,
in short, the lowest of the low.
Very well,
even if that were true,
then I should want to show
by my work
what there is in the heart
of such an eccentric man,
of such nobody.
...
Vincent {The Hague, second half of July 1882}