As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 251
Context: The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 251
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 310
“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”
Variant: Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
Source: Desolation Angels
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
(original Dutch: citaat van Hendrik Willem Mesdag, in het Nederlands:) ..thuis [in Brussel, 1869] had ik een heelen winter aan een werkstuk zitten scharrelen; 't was een kust, maar zo naiëf geschilderd. Toen zei ik: je moet de zee voor je zien, elken dag, er mee leven, anders wordt het niets. En toen gingen we naar Den Haag.
Quote of Mesdag, as cited by J.D. in 'Een Zeerob', in De Nieuwste Courant, 9 March, 1901
after 1880
“To grieve is the gift of the living — a gift so many of our kin have long lost”
Memories of Ice (2001)
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
Quote in an open letter ('Credo'), (Paris, end of December 1861), published in the 'Courier du Dimanche', (addressed to prospective students); as quoted in Letters of Gustave Courbet, transl. & ed. Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, University of Chicago Press 1992, pp. 203-204
1860s
