Jan Mankes

".. the landscape will become directly or indirectly an object of study for me.. ..So I have planned the project – already my intention for some years, as you know - I finished the painting of Woudster…"

"However, I gradually start to appreciate the Japanese print art as a whole less than a small year ago. We can discuss it later, sometimes. For the time being I can say that the external elegance and s…"

"My surprise and thanks are great.. ..and what a package. What attracts me most of all, yes, really gives me great joy that little book with birds, really something to look forward to. There are pictur…"

"It is like coming from a fairy-tale, something royal fragile, something that you would never want to touch, Yes to me it has become fully absolute because of that silver breast."

"The miracle has come. So suddenly and so directly that I still cann't comprehend it myself. I'm engaged. My girl is the pastor of and her name is Annie Zernike. You will get to know her and then you w…"

"I have finished a fairly large painting, the goat; I sometimes spoke to you about my plan. I believe it has become a real painting, and very complete."

"They say that he has made beautiful impressionist things in the past, afterwards he suddenly has achieved a tender drawing; in this time for example he painted dead rooks, so intimately pure and at th…"

"You know the tender side of my work. That side was always dominating me. I feel the joy of that tenderness most strongly when I think of a finch-nest with cobweb and lichen on a May-morning."