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Jozef Israëls Quotes

1824–1911 Netherlands

Jozef Israëls (27 January 1824 – 12 August 1911) was a Dutch painter. He was a leading senior artist of the group of landscape painters referred to as the Hague School.

Netherlands
Painters

Also known as: Jozef Isräels

Random Jozef Israëls quote

6 quotes

That is always difficult [making a repetition of an sold painting] and can only become a potboiler. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

You should write about me, just like you did about Degas (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

Is there a difference between a Jewish sea and a non-Jewish sea? What is a Jewish way of painting? (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

I don't believe in Jewish art. There are Jewish artists, which means, artists who are born Jewish, but that does not mean that their work is Jewish art. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

Too literary. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

The picture of the 'New Flower' ['Het Bloempje', 1880] is really one of those I did with much idea of having to express loveliness and youth both in human feeling and in the naturally plants of flowers, and If I may say don't you find, that I have succeed in this composition?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jozef Israëls (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.