such a colourist as has never yet been

“And the painter of the future will be such a colourist as has never yet been. Manet was working towards it, but the impressionists have already got stronger colour than Manet. I think I am right in feeling that we must work as we can to that end, without doubting and without wavering.”

—Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone, 1958.