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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?

— Jozef Israëls

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This remark Israëls wrote 26 years after finishing the watercolor; probably it was a gift to the American art-critic

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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)

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