"This is already the third time today that I meet you (Where? asked Willem Maris.). Today I walked with a friend on the migratory route and then I looked up at the sky and then I said: there you have Willem Maris. When we arrived in the city, I looked at the sky again and then I said: there you have Willem Maris again. And now I see you here for the third time. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
Willem Maris was a Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School.
"..and sometimes pausing between our talks we looked at some few canvases that were waiting for the Masters hand with the open sketchbook in front of it.. ..for example a year or two a very large ducks- painting was waiting there that did not want to be finished, (Harms Tiepen quotes a witness who visited the studio of the older Willem Maris)"
"The cow exists for the light that comes to glide along and over the animal - the light doesnt exist for he cow."
"At Heyser [a pub in The Hague] came the venerable old guys [painters]: Smit-Cranz, Coelman a. o. Those were the bigwigs, you see. We were the revolutionaries. And an opposition that we got! - In t Kurhaus they hang a poster against us during our first exhibition; they named us mud painters. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
"Weiss always said it so well: When you go outside, its like getting a punch against your chest.. hey ..damned, thats beautiful!! And thats why we made so many beautiful things in our studio in the Juffrouw Idastraat in The Hague city. The studio was not very special. It was noisy. But going outside suddenly, that moved you so strongly.. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
"In that period the young painter had - what is rather peculiar - such specific preference for misty moods that he, disgruntled, repeatedly gave up his study trips for that day, when sun and wind had chased away the morning haze. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
"..with the Antwerp painter Alex. Woest and Van Zeggelen he [Willem Maris] had been travelling to Norway [in 1871]. In the mountain landscapes [paintings] of Woest he painted cows and eagles.. .But now Woest, who painted anyway sometimes meritorious things, as Willem Maris told me, demanded that he should depict the eyes including pupils, etc.. of those animals [the cows], which were walking at a distance of three hours in his landscapes [paintings], clearly and accurate.."