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Willem Maris
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“As far as I can remember, it was before my twelfth year that I was sketching cows in the mornings before and afternoons after school, and because my brothers were 4 and 6 years older than me – naturally I got from them my first teachings in drawing and later in painting. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Willem Maris (1844–1910) first seen 1850 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Willem Maris, in his letter in 1901; as cited in 'Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850', Antoon Erftemeijer; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 36
“The cow exists for the light that comes to glide along and over the animal - the light doesn't exist for he cow.”
Willem Maris (1844–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't paint cows but light”
Willem Maris (1844–1910) first seen 1880 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2 short Quotes of Willem Maris, c. 1880; as cited in 'Schilder Maris' (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
“a couple of days afterwards I was sitting somewhere and painting - when one of these braggarts came up behind me. Well, hey, when you're young, you don't think that's very nice. And suddenly the guy throws his arms around me and roars: 'I sit here all day long plodding away with a pencil - scratching and scratching - and you get it right away!' It was ...Mauve.”
Willem Maris (1844–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At Heyser [a pub in The Hague] came the venerable old guys [painters]: Smit-Cranz, Coelman a. o. Those were the bigwigs, you see. We were the revolutionaries. And an opposition that we got! - In 't Kurhaus they hang a poster against us during our first exhibition; they named us 'mud painters'. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Willem Maris (1844–1910) first seen 1850 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Willem Maris; as cited in 'Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850', Antoon Erftemeijer; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, pp. 36-37
“'Weiss' always said it so well: 'When you go outside, it's like getting a punch against your chest.. hey ..damned, that's beautiful!!' And that's why we made so many beautiful things in our studio in the Juffrouw Idastraat in The Hague city. The studio was not very special. It was noisy. But going outside suddenly, that moved you so strongly.. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Willem Maris (1844–1910) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in: Willem Maris, by H. de Boer; P.J. Zürcherp, Den Haag, 1900, p. 23 + note 117: C. Harms Tiepen, 1910, pp. 14 [database 19th century studio practice - quotes RKD]
“As far as I can remember, it was about 25 or 26 years ago that Breitner [his pupil then] painted with me in 'Huize Rozenburg' [The Hague].. .There I had a large garden where he painted his dragoons with horses, posing there in front of him..”
Willem Maris (1844–1910) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: source: a letter of Willem Maris to 5 Jan. 1906, RKD Den Haag (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)