Willem Maris

"As far as I can remember, it was about 25 or 26 years ago that Breitner painted with me in 'Huize Rozenburg' .. .There I had a large garden where he painted his dragoons with horses, posing there in f…"

"The Brothers Maris , ed. Charles Holme; English text: D.C. Thomson; publishers: Offices of 'The Studio', London - Paris, 1907"

"images of paintings and drawings by Willem Maris, in the RijksStudio of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

"a couple of days afterwards I was sitting somewhere and painting - when one of these braggarts came up behind me. Well, hey, when you're young, you don't think that's very nice. And suddenly the guy t…"

"Dutch text Willem Maris, by H. de Boer, published by P. J. Zürcher, Den Haag, c. 1905-1910"

"The cow exists for the light that comes to glide along and over the animal - the light doesn't exist for he cow."

"At Heyser came the venerable old guys : Smit-Cranz, Coelman a. o. Those were the bigwigs, you see. We were the revolutionaries. And an opposition that we got! - In 't Kurhaus they hang a poster agains…"

"As far as I can remember, it was before my twelfth year that I was sketching cows in the mornings before and afternoons after school, and because my brothers were 4 and 6 years older than me – natural…"