"..truly, if I sometimes of my work under the eyes, I love a genre [churches!], which in the fullest sense of saying m…"

"In the [art-magazine] 'Kunst-Kronijk' my work 'Monastic corridor' came under your eyes; it is after a drawing that I …"

"As a schoolboy drawing-lessons became my favorite, and that pleasure was not ignited a little when, by the time of my…"

"In [18]35, I made a study trip about Utrecht and Nijmegen to Dusseldorf, Cologne and [w:Koblenz|Coblentz]], together …"

"The same year [1835] I made my debut at the Exposition in Rotterdam with [his painting] "the St. Janskerk in ’s Herto…"

"..that my drawings which offer - also by variety of genre - a greater variety [compared to his paintings], especially…"

"To show this later progress in my own work I refer to my [paintings] 'Organ-playing monk', in 1850, my 'Lord's Supper…"

"The [[w:Romanticism|romantic [Dutch] movement]] under the leadership of the geniuses Nuyen [c. 1830] also attracted m…"

"The death of the unforgettable Nuyen has moved me deeply, Jan. Now the hope for young painting art [in The Netherland…"

"An architect, who was a great lover of art, once said to the writer [= E.B. Greenshields himself!] 'From that point o…"