Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

"short film with many images of Koekkoek's landscape-paintings"

"Immediately and definitively I determine the effect of sunlight, day and shadow, without being concerned with any detail. This enable me to see in the started painting the whole of it, which my mind a…"

"Shall I now ask these palette-slaves what poetry means, and in how many forms it appears to us? They want to chain her , just as they are tied up themselves to their master's palette, to some part of …"

"The pursuit of perfection in art must always be a noble duty to the artist, but.. .Here he feels, more than in any other place, too vividly his inability.. .Stop it, painter! Just please yourself with…"

"Fortunately however, is that school where Mother Nature is placed in the foreground, and where only she is consulted to representate 'truth' on the canvas or panel. Only he knows the secrets of the ma…"

"In my opinion the aim of the painter is similar with that of the poet, insofar that both want to affect the feelings of the viewer or reader. As soon as their scenes.. ..are lacking the mark of nature…"

"The free artist must also have the spunk to tear himself away from his first ideas, for experience teaches us that these are not always pure, but often false."

"For a landscape painter.. ..simple natural scenes can also be delightful, as romantics does. Perhaps even more instructive, because the eye can find a more elementary harmony in it.. ..that's how the …"