Anton Mauve

"Just follow the lead of the Dutch seventeenth-century master-painters, we have to look at the country around us in the way the old masters did."

"How are you doing, make a good, simple true thing, for example.. .I believe I have found a good place for it. Namely, I spoke Mr. about you and he expressed his wish that you should show him something…"

"Take care for this, don't start with the sentiment first, that's where a piece of art is ending with - but the good start is drawing good and right."

"Dear friend! I am still staying in Oosterbeek as you can see but I will now leave in 2 days. The last days I spent on two small paintings ordered by Mr. de Visser. I painted them in a happy atmosphere…"

"Nowadays I make ugly things, but I think they are nevertheless better than before, more made out-of-me myself, just simple cows with air and greenishness."

"many free images of Mauve's paintings in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

"As far as my work concerned, I am busy with a few small paintings, one is ordered and the other I have to 'adventure'. More and more I feel that I am short of so many studies, if I had the money, I di…"

"When entering a studio the most pleasant thing to see is a blank canvas. It looks so inviting to make a start, you are fresh and hoping for the best. Then a terrible time follows when everything seems…"