Jacoba van Heemskerck

Quotes

• “Nothing special is happening here in the paintersworld [of the Netherlands]; everything stays firmly the same. (translation, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
• “The country [ Brittany ] is very beautiful and painterly one see stimulating color tones; but the more abstract one works, the more one transforms the sketch into combinations. (translation from German, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
• “That's the way it goes, you know, I'm always dissatisfied and always I want to go on. (translation from German, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
• “It is a terrible, but also tremendous time. Personally I find it moreover so important for my art to live now.. .These times force you to think over a lot and work very hard, in Nature now a strong creative force is working. (translation from German, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
• “I was in Rotterdam, but the exhibition there was horrible. Le Fauconnier has nothing to tell anymore. He has a dirty color now and has become a real academic. Mondrian is completely frozen, no poetry at all anymore. It's terrible that these people can not reach further with great ideals. To my taste paints far too much naturalistic. A big difference, these three, compared to [[w:Franz Marc|[Franz] Marc]], Kandinsky, Filla etc.. (translation from German, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
• “As an artist you can not stand for long in The Netherlands. You must see a lot and talk a lot about everything.. (translation from German, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”

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