"..that my drawings which offer - also by variety of genre - a greater variety , especially after 1863, when my late friend jr. CCA Ridder van Rappard urged me to reserve especially for him all the new works I would make and such including the freedom not to limit myself exclusively to my main genre . In the environment around his estate in the Sticht where he stayed, it became therefore the treshing-floors of the farms and the house-interiors which immediately attracted and inspired me to achieve a new personal interpretation of these subjects."

“The romantic movement under the leadership of the geniuses Nuyen also attracted me to follow. And in spite of the fact that in this way people lost their color and embellishment and often degenerating into chic, later on, a more sensible search arose for enlivening of coloration, heightening effect and strengthening the relief.”

“To show this later progress in my own work I refer to my 'Organ-playing monk', in 1850, my 'Lord's Supper in the Geestes-kerk in Utrecht' in 1852, and my 'Bakenesse-kerk in Haarlem', painted a dozen years later. All three can be found in the museum Fodor and can thus be compared to each other. The preference will undoubtedly be given to the latter, which for its strength and unity is counted among the masterpieces of this collection.”

“Johannes Bosboom, by Gerarda Hermina Marius - in free pdf; publish, M. Nijhoff, 1917, 's-Gravenhage / The Hague”

“As a schoolboy drawing-lessons became my favorite, and that pleasure was not ignited a little when, by the time of my twelfth year, the cityscape-painter B. J. van Hove became our neighbor. Since then I began to long for the moment that I would be allowed to change the school bench for a place in his studio. That desire was already satisfied in the autumn of 31.”

“..how with the Romantic movement after 1830 also the love awakened for everything that recalled former times to the mind - including the period of the middle-ages -, and how the sigh grew from it to collect all kind of objects that reassured the taste of those times. Here too, the celebrated Nuyen stood in front.”

“..truly, if I sometimes of my work under the eyes, I love a genre , which in the fullest sense of saying may be called 'mine'.”