Jopie Huisman

"These are the shoes of old Yde, a bachelor. He has worn them for forty years. He repaired them from below and above, from the inside and the outside. He gave me his shoes, for a bottle of brandy. They…"

"Jopie Huisman in the Dutch Royal Artist Archive: RKD"

"I used to paint some things a few times, but I stopped, because I didn't get an answer. If the work has nothing to say to somebody else, I quit. I am not an idiot who is talking to himself and gazing …"

"In 1946 it was the first time I saw a Van Gogh, a painting from his years in France. It was excactly what I had always felt here : infinity, the unimaginable. I was bewildered and thought: who has bee…"

"Father was a beautiful person, Otherwise I couldn't have paint him like that . Painted in seven hours. On a Saturday. About three months before my mother had died. Three times he stood up: 'Are you ge…"

"..because of self-preservation, selfishness and the urge for happiness love has prevailed in me, and in that way everything becomes enchanted and even an old dirty, discarded doll transforms in someth…"

"Over the years I kept everything and anything from stuff and things that I came across during my life in trade, if they had emotional value to me. Always the simple goods and tools, from the farmers, …"

"The smaller the world, the better I feel. When the reed is around me, evil has disappeared from the world. I really shall paint the reed next year, I've seriously decided. A small area of reeds with s…"