"My surprise and thanks are great.. ..and what a package. What attracts me most of all, yes, really gives me great joy…"

"Yet I would like to get acquainted with Japanese drawings or paintings.. ..especially as they appreciate birds so str…"

"They say that he [ Floris Verster ] has made beautiful impressionist things in the past, afterwards he suddenly has a…"

"For example, in recent times I was looking to avoid in my works the greasy parts, which in the dark places [of the pa…"

"It [an owl] is like coming from a fairy-tale, something royal fragile, something that you would never want to touch, …"

"While holding a keen eye on all the yelling at the markets, let's prefer to stay away from many of those things that …"

"..[that] the landscape will become directly or indirectly an object of study for me.. (a month later:) ..So I have pl…"

"Besides, the entire impressionism usually presented merely the things from the outside. And sometimes they did it so …"

"..the distressing aspect of [[w:Vincent van Gogh|Vincent [van Gogh],]] who often presents things so tightly and so pa…"

"..drivers, docker and skippers.. ..at the canal the whole day they are loading peat and every horse stands still for …"