"Hanging beside me is a landscape study by Roelofs, a pen sketch, but I can't tell you how expressive that simple outline is. Everything is in there. english translation of original letter"
— Willem Roelofs

January 1, 1970

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(original Dutch: citaat over Willem Roelofs in het Nederlands:) Ik heb naast mij hangen een landschapstudie van Roelofs, een penschets, maar ik kan U niet zeggen hoe expressief die eenvoudige contour is.– Alles is er in.– — Quote of Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo, from The Hague, 31 July 1882; source for Dutch original text & English translation of Vincent's letter — Vincent was that period strongly focused on the outline / contour