George Hendrik Breitner

"I learned from Nol that nowadays you are especially engaged upon enlargements . I would like to ask you if you perhaps have a piece of moorland for me, I would be very grateful to you. Because I am wo…"

"The so-called bourgeoisie doesn't provide any substance for my art. The character there is too faint and without any spirit. It doesn't represent a race in an artistic sense. So there is no other choi…"

"Hartenstraat - the air is strong light - houses, illuminated from the top, left - flags translucent"

"After viewing a few paintings and a drawing that I had brought in the day before yesterday, Mr. v.d. Kellen assured me that there was absolutely no chance of placing anything of mine here, unless it w…"

"Hartenstraat - 1 o'clock in the afternoon - the flags throw shadow on the houses"

"Last Saturday it was a rainy evening. I took advantage of that to draw once again the whole evening at Dam Square all over and Sunday I repainted my painting completely, that yellow nasty color has di…"

"My drawings for the art exhibition don't get finished and time is running out. 15 or 16 Dec. I believe. Of course they show soldiers once again and of course the people say that it looks like Neuville…"

"That painting with that man - that drunken man - was first a soup-distribution , which I had seen, and for which I also made those studies of which you speak. Also failed; simply due to lack of persev…"