"Here in Oosterbeek, Bilders frequently worked behind the church, in the lower village, where then you could still fin…"

"..and to my great pleasure I heard that the work 'The Wodan's Oaks' (at my brother's home), had also struck you so mu…"

"He painted – was living in Utrecht, [he] immediately attracted attention and had many ideas, got good prices for that…"

"Our trips in Drenthe [in 1878-79] he [Johannes Warnardus Bilders] enjoyed a lot, but Vorden and especially Oosterbeek…"

"I believe that in our country Bilders' art is entirely self-contained and has not generated a particular school, desp…"

"I doubt whether Bilders' great talent ever reached its full development. He stood alone, absolutely alone. The phlegm…"

"Last week I was with Bilders.. .I saw a beautiful landscape of him, the village Vorden, illuminated by the evening tw…"

"Being self-taught and striving for a broad, fresh original concept of art himself he thought he could not warn Mesdag…"

"Even though many have seen Bilders studying nature with the greatest zeal and the noblest enthusiasm of studying natu…"

"Then - being in two minds - in my father's courtyard, I counted the buttons of my coat: soldier or painter, soldier, …"