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Because - you need moderation for the perseverance in your work!

— Suze Robertson Onder de Menschen: Suze Robertson (1912)

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Source: (version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Suze Robertson:) Want - soberheid heb je noodig voor de volhoudendheid in je werk!
Work: Onder de Menschen: Suze Robertson, 1912
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Although teaching in the class is so terribly tiring.. .I continued my work perfunctorily in a way that nobody could notice it. Because I lived with that firm intention: in a few years I will start painting. And I saved for this by being as sober as possible with everything.

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But please come into my studio; It is now full of works everywhere, you see.. .Oh, you don't need to be careful; those paintings do fall together frequently; - it doesn't really harm them.

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Acquaintances, family, posing for me? - Oh no, please no acquaintances, no nephews or nieces.. .If I need them, I take models; am I searching for myself, tripping through the neighborhoods..

Onder de Menschen: Suze Robertson (1912)

Then on a certain day I went out [from Amsterdam, c. 1881-82]. I traveled to Dongen, brought some interior studies back, to try to make something good of them.

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I never had difficulties with my students, for I was prepared for their pranks, because fortunately I had often been naughty myself. We frequently made tremendous fun at the Art Academy in The Hague.. .So I still had my own experience in this area fresh in my mind.

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Well, sure, when you have some success, you also work with more self-confidence and ease. But before that time; that awkward question: am I going to sell or not. All the same I never took notice of it regarding to my work.

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