"Although the wife of a famous marine painter, she does not want to be regarded as Mrs. Mesdag in the arts, but as an …"

"We are all different, and there is a continuous movement. You will need to continually re-invest in it."

"But 'the' Dutch identity? No, I have not found it. The Netherlands is: large windows without curtains so everyone can…"

"For the whole world I became a heroine, very easy, but not complimentary, since I had done nothing in this case, rece…"

"I have done more for the Boers than my fellow countrymen will ever know"

"only in the intimacy with mother I could be just a human"

"the government did not fulfil the urge in their hearts and felt that the public wished to see me openly revealing my …"

"Already then, there was in my subconsciousness as unsatisfactoriness about powerlessness, which was accompanied by be…"

"to one of which I am attached by bonds of friendship, to other by ties of common origin"

"..[ Constant Permeke's] coloration, monumentallity and bewildering deformations of human physical and psychic propert…"