“That's the way it goes, you know, I'm always dissatisfied and always I want to go on.”

(translation from German, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018, original version, written by Jacoba in German:) So geht es, wissen Sie, ich bin immer unzufrieden und will immer weiter gehen.
in a letter to Herwarth Walden, 1 June 1914; as cited by Arend H. Huussen Jr. in Jacoba van Heemskerck, kunstenares van het Expressionisme, Haags Gemeentemuseum The Hague, 1982, p. 19
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