"Lord, oh Lord, will I return to you once, being a genuine artist. Will all those Art lovers once behold my works with…"

"It certainly will please you to read that after my small painting ['First Love', c. 1856] what you have seen in Rotte…"

"The title [of an album with prints of Israels and poems after his pictures, made by Nicolaas Beets ] will not be I ho…"

"I take advantage of a painting that I now have at the Paris' exhibition. 3 orphan girls who are sewing in an interior…"

"..I would like to ask your advice as a friend, namely whether you believe I should submit my painting 'Ouden en Jonge…"

"Take care for purity in the paint and not so stinky thick of grease, thin, thin, thin! And just on the light [parts i…"

"In this Summer time of ours with Scheveningen on the shore the bathing time and the hot weather I did very few things…"

"That is always difficult [making a repetition of an sold painting] and can only become a potboiler. (translation from…"

"No, the Dutchman is not cold, not insensitive, our people are still full of enthusiasm for what is noble and good. Ho…"

"He [the painter J.A. Kruseman in Amsterdam] is very amicable with his students without exposing his mastery to disdai…"