“That splendid, head, in which everything is said that can be said; color, line, tone, expression; the slightly advanced head, with the soft, almost human eyes, I never enter my studio in the morning without my eye falling upon this creature and wishing it 'Good Morning.'”
note of H.W. Mesdag, published in the exhibition catalogue of Corporation Gallery of London, the Guildhall, in 1903; as cited in the catalogue of The American Art Galleries Madison Square South, New York, 3 March 1920 https://ia601600.us.archive.org/29/items/b1470642/b1470642.pdf<br><br>remark about the painting 'Ramskop' of Matthijs Maris, painted c. 1860 https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/26605, which Mesdag bought and hanged in his house for many years <br class="br">after 1880
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Hendrik Willem Mesdag10
painter from the Northern Netherlands 1831–1915Related quotes
“I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward.”
Janet Evanovich Three to Get Deadly
Source: Three to Get Deadly
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) Austrian-American composer
As quoted in an interview with José Rodriguez (c. 1936) in Schoenberg (1971) by Merle Armitage, p. 143
1930s
“I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
“The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either.”
Roberto Bolaño book Last Evenings on Earth
Mauricio ('The Eye') Silva
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
Context: One day I heard that The Eye had left Mexico. I wasn't surprised that he hadn't said good-bye. The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either.
