Who was Van Gogh writing when he wrote : " It is a kind of painting that rather changes in character , and takes on a richness the longer you look at it . " ?
Writing to his sister Willemina two years later in Paris , Van Gogh still considered " The Potato Eaters " his most successful painting : " What I think about my own work is that the painting of the peasants eating potatoes that I did in Nuenen is after all the best thing I did " .