Jacoba van Heemskerck

"Here there is absolutely nothing, nowhere and permanently committees to deliver the visual artists some money, since all are hungry. It is such a difficult time for Holland. I had flu, I was very sick…"

"It is a terrible, but also tremendous time. Personally I find it moreover so important for my art to live now.. .These times force you to think over a lot and work very hard, in Nature now a strong cr…"

"23 images of her art-works - on Wikiart"

"..I am so often showing my work in Germany that I belong to the German moderns.. .I openly want to confess you that I don't value the new painting in my home country very much. That is why I don't hav…"

"For you it must be a great satisfaction that you have done so much for modern art. If Der Sturm had not worked like this for ten years then Germany would not have been at the forefront of the movement…"

"Every day I am thinking about the Art school .. .If our pursuit is really to make great progress in future, the Art school must produce individualities who can with our assist really continue from the…"

"I don't understand how many painters can be so short-sighted to value art from earlier periods as completely worthless. Every art is an expression of an era and only for that reason already it is inte…"

"That's the way it goes, you know, I'm always dissatisfied and always I want to go on."