Anton Mauve

"Just follow the lead of the Dutch seventeenth-century master-painters, we have to look at the country around us in the way the old masters did."

"Take care for this, don't start with the sentiment first, that's where a piece of art is ending with - but the good start is drawing good and right."

"Nowadays I make ugly things, but I think they are nevertheless better than before, more made out-of-me myself, just simple cows with air and greenishness."

"As far as my work concerned, I am busy with a few small paintings, one is ordered and the other I have to 'adventure'. More and more I feel that I am short of so many studies, if I had the money, I di…"

"When entering a studio the most pleasant thing to see is a blank canvas. It looks so inviting to make a start, you are fresh and hoping for the best. Then a terrible time follows when everything seems…"

"I've got a special liking for stables. I find them so very suitable for creating an artistique feeling, and then those stables from Oosterbeek!"

"At first I did not feel much inclined to agree , but I did not like to refuse the little fellow flatly, so we went off together. My companion did not suffer from loquacity; and, coming to a field with…"

"You go outside, light your pipe, whistle a tune and just paint what you come across."