"Amice, be so good, if it is not too late, to scrape the title 'l'Aprês-Midi' ['Afternoon', title of the work submitte…"

"Be something, be yourself; if not, ]then] throw your palette in the fire. Form a school if you wish, but it must come…"

"Oh, for that matter you must look carefully how in every region of our country the map looks completely different. No…"

"..keep working quietly and have faith in what I tell you, never ask how someone else did it or is doing, try to under…"

"[to mr. L. de Haes] Well, go upstairs, you know the way; are you going to take a look? At the moment you will not fin…"

"..that one [a tree study in Gabriël's studio] is from my early times; I don't make them that way anymore; look how th…"

"Although I can look a bit grumpy myself, I love it when the sun shines in the water, but besides that I think my coun…"

"'Peintre Paysagiste des Polders Hollandais', ('Landscape Painter of the Dutch Polders')"

"'An early morning may look superficially gray, but it is not.. ..the dew is much more colorful than one would believe…"

"Gabriel lived entirely in an atmosphere of art, and if he seemed to take little interest in what was going on outside…"