Jopie Huisman

"These are the shoes of old Yde, a bachelor. He has worn them for forty years. He repaired them from below and above, from the inside and the outside. He gave me his shoes, for a bottle of brandy. They…"

"Jopie Huisman in the Dutch Royal Artist Archive: RKD"

"I used to paint some things a few times, but I stopped, because I didn't get an answer. If the work has nothing to say to somebody else, I quit. I am not an idiot who is talking to himself and gazing …"

"In 1946 it was the first time I saw a Van Gogh, a painting from his years in France. It was excactly what I had always felt here : infinity, the unimaginable. I was bewildered and thought: who has bee…"

"Father was a beautiful person, Otherwise I couldn't have paint him like that . Painted in seven hours. On a Saturday. About three months before my mother had died. Three times he stood up: 'Are you ge…"

"..because of self-preservation, selfishness and the urge for happiness love has prevailed in me, and in that way everything becomes enchanted and even an old dirty, discarded doll transforms in someth…"

"Just six kilometers – never my world was bigger than that, actually. That starting time , to which I return now; watercolor; I prefer a bit foggy, a small world - and not the cows themselves, but only…"

"I was sitting in the barn, drawing a dead bird which I had put on a box. Then the barn door opened and Kees entered .. ..He came down next to me.. ..After a short silence he said: 'Are you painting? '…"