“Then make those studies outside. With the utmost simplicity you try to get rid of all the so-called manners, and try in one word to follow nature with feeling, but without thinking about the works of others. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”

— Willem Roelofs

(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Maak dan die studies buiten; met de grootste eenvoudigheid, tracht u van alle zogenaamde manier te ontdoen en tracht in een woord de natuur met gevoel maar zonder denken aan het werk van anderen, na te volgen. Quote in Roelof's letter to his pupil Hendrik W. Mesdag, 1866; as cited in Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zohollands_eindversie_def_1.pdf; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 16, note 7 1860's

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“Then make those studies outside. With the utmost simplicity you try to get rid of all the so-called manners, and try in one word to follow nature with feeling, but without thinking about the works of others.”

Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)

translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek (original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Maak dan die studies buiten; met de grootste eenvoudigheid, tracht u van alle zogenaamde manier te ontdoen en tracht in een woord de natuur met gevoel maar zonder denken aan het werk van anderen, na te volgen. Quote in Roelof's letter to his pupil Hendrik W. Mesdag, 1866; as cited in Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zohollands_eindversie_def_1.pdf; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 16, note 7 1860's

“Too literary. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”

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version in Dutch (citaat van Jozef Israëls, in het Nederlands): Te literair.
short note in Israëls' Journal, 12 Dec. 1903, (in Jan Veth 1903, nr. 6); as cited in Jozef Israëls, 1824 – 1911, ed. Dieuwertje Dekkers; Waanders, Zwolle 1999, p. 199
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“You should write about me, just like you did about Degas (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”

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version in original Dutch (citaat van de tekst van Jozef Israëls, in het Nederlands): Net zoals over
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“[a landscape painter cannot do with] being stupid-natural…. all that art would be [made] in vain if the feeling stayed away. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”

Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)

(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Het doel, het streven van de kunst, is als dat van de muziek, te ontroeren; in onze geest gewaarwordingen te doen ontstaan..
[een landschapschilder kan niet volstaan met] stom-natuurlijk te zijn.. ..al die kunst zou ijdel zijn, als het gevoel weg bleef.
2 short quotes of W. Roelofs in a letter to his pupil , 8 June 1886; as cited in Willem Roelofs 1822-1897. De adem der natuur, ed. M. van Heteren and R. te Rijdt; exposition catalog of Museum Jan Cunen, Oss / Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2006, p. 50
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“What is life difficult and cumbersome, and what hard work it is to fathom one's own thoughts, feelings really truthfully - to purify and to place them behind each other. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”

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version in original Dutch (citaat uit een brief van Maria Bilders-van Bosse, in het Nederlands:) Wat is het leven moeilijk en omslachtig, en wat heeft men een toer om zijne eigen gedachten, gevoelens regt naar waarheid te doorgronden – te zuiveren en achter elkaar te plaatsen.
Quote from her letter to sister Anna, The Hague, 12 Jan. 1879; as cited in Marie Bilders-van Bosse 1837-1900 – Een Leven voor Kunst en Vriendschap, Ingelies Vermeulen & Ton Pelkmans; Kontrast ( ISBN 978-90-78215-54-7), 2008, p. 21

“You go outside, light your pipe, whistle a tune and just paint what you come across. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”

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(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Anton Mauve, in het Nederlands:) Je gaat naar buiten, steekt je pijpje op, fluit een deuntje en schildert wat je tegenkomt.
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“That is always difficult [making a repetition of an sold painting] and can only become a potboiler. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”

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(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Anton Mauve, in het Nederlands:) Ik heb er bijzondere voorliefde voor stallen gekregen. Ik vind zee zoo heel geschikt om een artistique gevoel te [te?] komen, en dan die stallen.
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“Dam Square is the center of movement in our city [Amsterdam]. (translation from the original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek)”

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(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Er is hier voor het Hollandsch landschap nog al wat studie en ik geloof beste te doen nog maar wat te blijven. Quote of Roelofs in his letter from Schiedam, Summer 1865; as cited in Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zohollands_eindversie_def_1.pdf; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 16 in the Summer of 1865 Roelofs was visiting Schiedam and its surrounding polders. In 1866 he came back here, for making his sketches in open air 1860's

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