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“When I'm sitting in front of my easel again.. .I'm going to make things that no one would have expected of me.”

“A painting is finished when one can see what it represents.”

“Thijs knew everything by himself, he was a genius.”

“On the other hand, I am accused of not finishing my paintings, no matter how much time I spent to my airs. Well, 'finished' in the common sense of the word, they are certainly not! Finishing in that sense would drag the life out of it.”

“Almost all new French art has for me a flat, empty character without any distance and depth in colors. The paintings look like white sheets of paper with colors on it.”

“images of paintings and drawings by Jacob Maris, in the RijksStudio of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam”

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