"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 perseverance. I have made another drawing of it, which V. Wisselingh found quite good and he afterwards sold to an American, and he does not know where it has gone."

“I have also been working on the large canvas for a few months. and it has turned into a cavalry charge, which I hope for sure to be able to exhibit in Spring.”

“What I lack are the skills of painting, the profession which I don't know, and now I see that the French possess this so extremely strong. I do believe that you can learn it all here. I am in Paris now. When someone is richer than me and he wants me to stay here for a year or half a year my future will have a lot of more certainty than when I must go back to Holland after eight days.. .I hope you will be able to fulfill my wish; I also put enough trust in you that you will do this, if you can. Waiting for your letter with a lot of anxiety, I remain' - G.H. Breitner”

“many free pictures of Breitner's paintings: on the website, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam”

“This place , is just about the same as the Hobbema-straat, and that is precisely not the character of Amsterdam..”

“..but also for the person who is visiting Paris later in his life for the very first time, something unusual will happen.. ..then there appears for the man of age a light - a light in which he sees the dreamy images of his life transforming into more tangible and more solid forms. Because that city has created our modern culture, and the movements of life in most countries are just a reflex of those which are starting in France's capital.”

“biographical notes on George Hendrik Breitner, in Dutch RKD-Archive, The Hague”