
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
In a letter on 4 August 1937 from Amsterdam, to writer and collector Stephan Lackner; as quoted on artists in exile http://kuenste-im-exil.de/
1930s
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
“When good Americans die, they go to Paris"
"Where do bad Americans go?"
"They stay in America”
Act I.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Context: Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.
Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?
Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.
translation from the original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek
version in original Dutch (citaat van Breitner's brief, in het Nederlands:) Het is niet mogelijk dergelijke dingen te maken zonder hulp van photos. Hoe wil je dat ik een Amsterdamsche straat maak. Ik maak krabbeltjes in mijn schetsboek. als het kan een studie uit een raam. en een schets voor de details maar de keus. De compositie is toch van mij.
after 1886; quoted by Van Veen in G.H. Breitner : fotograaf en schilder van het Amsterdamse stadsgezicht', 1997, p. 28-29; as cited in Van IJs naar Sneeuw - De ontwikkeling van het wintergezicht in de 19de eeuw, Arsine Nazarian Juli 2008, Utrecht, p. 85
Breitner defended himself when he was criticized by his art-dealer in using photography for making his paintings
undated quotes
1926 - 1941, Autobiography of the artist' (1941)
“Everything must belong somewhere.
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.”
I Must Belong Somewhere
Cassadaga (2007)
“I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!”
“Simply put, money comes here and stays here because it can go if it wants to go.”
March 29, 1967, page 253.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
Context: Simply put, money comes here and stays here because it can go if it wants to go. Try to hedge it around with prohibitions, and it would go and we could not stop it; and no more would come.
"My Nightgown is Blue and I am too!" (20 March 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXmSYfJctfw