George Hendrik Breitner

"Today I visited Van Gogh's exhibition. I can not help it, but I think it's art for Eskimos, I can not enjoy it. I find it fairly crude and obnoxious, without the slightest distinction, and besides tha…"

"I learned from Nol that nowadays you are especially engaged upon enlargements . I would like to ask you if you perhaps have a piece of moorland for me, I would be very grateful to you. Because I am wo…"

"It is not possible to make such things without the help of photos. How do you want me to make an Amsterdam street. I make thumbnail sketches in my sketchbook. if it's possible I make a study from a wi…"

"The so-called bourgeoisie doesn't provide any substance for my art. The character there is too faint and without any spirit. It doesn't represent a race in an artistic sense. So there is no other choi…"

"It is just most delightful to me that I live in this way in the heart of Amsterdam. In a second you can eat somewhere and be back home again. You never have to wait for the tram. It is less than seven…"

"..in an review of the exhibition in Arti, you say that most of my submissions are not meant as a study. I don't know what you mean by study. I understand a study as a work I am painting directly after…"

"What I consider to do with the new course is: in the morning doing large plaster and in the afternoon painting or drawing after Nature, what I am doing already for some time, and horses in the Municip…"

"Hartenstraat - the air is strong light - houses, illuminated from the top, left - flags translucent"