Jozef Israëls

"You should write about me, just like you did about Degas"

"The picture of the 'New Flower' is really one of those I did with much idea of having to express loveliness and youth both in human feeling and in the naturally plants of flowers, and If I may say don…"

"It certainly will please you to read that after my small painting what you have seen in Rotterdam, a large lithography is being made now by Lord Mouilleron, France's first lithographer.. .It becomes v…"

"I take advantage of a painting that I now have at the Paris' exhibition. 3 orphan girls who are sewing in an interior room. I have sold there for a nice price and have heard some interesting reviews p…"

"He is very amicable with his students without exposing his mastery to disdain. I sometimes see him painting from time to time. And I almost visit daily his studio. You must know that his students don'…"

"I heard nothing from his excellence .. .I am sure he will be satisfied by it when he hears it is good. I have some practice in those matters of amateurs. The best pictures are the worst for them natur…"

"There are people who think that it is placed beautifully, - it shines, it just roars like a fairground attraction - but is that the way that the greatest art ought to be exhibited? After all, it is un…"

"You cannot know at all what will comes out of you because all your knowledge is running otherwise. What you do not know and what you thought that there would not come at all, that comes out and appear…"