"..I therefore got around to painting [in Amsterdam, 1883] and that's why teaching started to become a burden for me. So then it HAD to happen now: Make or break! And I asked my dismissal at the school, threw away my 2500 florin a year, sacrificed everything, although I never made any painting yet, and certainly sold nothing at all. And my acquaintances, my family, they found me reckless and shamefully frivolous with my sacrifice to art, for which they did not felt any sympathy or understand anything of it after all."
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Suze Robertson
Suze Bisschop-Robertson (The Hague 17 December 1855 – The Hague, 18 October 1922) was a Dutch painter. She left Dutch Impressionism of those day because of painting rather impasto and giving away depth in her images.
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