Roger Raveel

"That I started from my immediate environment was extremely important to me. Only the things I knew, with which I was familiar, which I had caught on their reality value, I could approach free of extra…"

"website of Roger Raveel Museum"

"images of paintings and drawings by Roger Raveel, on Wikiart"

"The city offers certainly advantages, I agree. But I think that they do not outweigh the direct, unadulterated inspiration of the natural life that I find here ."

"all respect for that neoclassicism , but it would sacrifices me too much to architecture. That kind of art does indeed fit perfectly in very modern rooms of modern buildings in equally modern cities, …"

"As far as my exhibition concerned .. ..there is however a recent and important painting hanging there 'Man met Boompje' - permettez-moi - with beautiful refracting matters and color: lemon-yellow spot…"

"The terrible beautiful Life."

"Every day I make more progress in technique: understanding of color, the material and the line. can even give better theoretical explanations. And moreover, gradually I live more and more connected wi…"