version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Willem Maris: De koe is er om het licht, dat langs en over het dier komt glijden - het licht niet om de koe.
“I don't paint cows but light”
Willem Maris (1844–1910) Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School (1844-1910)
version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Willem Maris: Ik schilder geen koeien, maar licht. <br class="br">2 short Quotes of Willem Maris, c. 1880; as cited in 'Schilder Maris' http://www.wittebrugpark.nl/wittebrugpark/schilders/maris/maris.htm (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (1913–1999) Indian islamic scholar
while addressing Indian and Pakistani pilgrims in Jeddah on 3 April 1986. Maulana Abul Hasan All Nadwi, Zimmedarian aur Ahl-e-watan ke Haquq, Majlis Tehqiqaat o’ Nashrat Islam, Lucknow, 1986. quoted in Arun Shourie - The World of Fatwas Or The Sharia in Action (2012, Harper Collins)
Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926–2014) Argentine association football player
The Wit and Wisdom of Alfredo Di Stéfano Kindle Location 71.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
As quoted by Friedrich Jodl, "Goethe and Kant," The Monist (1901) f. , ed. Paul Carus, Vol. 11, p. 264 https://books.google.com/books?id=gnQKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA264. As translated from Professor Jodl's MS. by W. H. Carruth, of the University of Kansas.
“A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
April 14, 1772, p. 201
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“Was the cow crossed?"
"No, your worship, it was an open cow.”
A. P. Herbert book Uncommon Law
"The Negotiable Cow".
Uncommon Law (1935)
"Slough" line 1, from Continual Dew (1937).
Poetry
“Your women bathing come from the cow house.”
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876) French painter
Quote of Diaz to Millet, c. 1860's, viewing a Nude painting of Millet; as quoted by Arthur Hoeber in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1915, p. 17
Quotes of Diaz
