Clergyman's

I learned from Nol that nowadays you are especially engaged upon enlargements . I would like to ask you if you perhaps have a piece of moorland for me, I would be very grateful to you. Because I am working on a painting with a large foreground. You may have seen it, with that artillery in it. It must be a simple sloping ground. Without much frills of sand - etc. nothing but heather..
- George Hendrik Breitner

The so-called bourgeoisie doesn't provide any substance for my art. The character there is too faint and without any spirit. It doesn't represent a race in an artistic sense. So there is no other choice for me .
- George Hendrik Breitner

It is just most delightful to me that I live in this way in the heart of Amsterdam. In a second you can eat somewhere and be back home again. You never have to wait for the tram. It is less than seven minutes from Dam Square. To me that is so unusual and so pleasant. I walk there daily.. ..the window is about 2.25 m wide and high, and underneath a standing window of the same size, breadth-wise.
- George Hendrik Breitner

It is just most delightful to me that I live in this way in the heart of Amsterdam. In a second you can eat somewhere and be back home again. You never have to wait for the tram. It is less than seven minutes from Dam Square. To me that is so unusual and so pleasant. I walk there daily.. ..the window is about 2.25 m wide and high, and underneath a standing window of the same size, breadth-wise.
- George Hendrik Breitner

Myself, I will paint the people in the street and in the houses, the streets and houses they have built, life in general. I will attempt to be 'le peintre du peuple' , or rather I am that already, because I want to be. I want to paint history, and I will, but history in its' broadest sense. A market, a wharf, a river, a group of soldiers under a burning sun or in the snow..
- George Hendrik Breitner

Myself, I will paint the people in the street and in the houses, the streets and houses they have built, life in general. I will attempt to be 'le peintre du peuple' , or rather I am that already, because I want to be. I want to paint history, and I will, but history in its' broadest sense. A market, a wharf, a river, a group of soldiers under a burning sun or in the snow..
- George Hendrik Breitner

It is not possible to make such things without the help of photos. How do you want me to make an Amsterdam street. I make thumbnail sketches in my sketchbook. if it's possible I make a study from a window. and a sketch for the details after my choice. The composition is mine anyhow.
- George Hendrik Breitner

It is not possible to make such things without the help of photos. How do you want me to make an Amsterdam street. I make thumbnail sketches in my sketchbook. if it's possible I make a study from a window. and a sketch for the details after my choice. The composition is mine anyhow.
- George Hendrik Breitner

It is not possible to make such things without the help of photos. How do you want me to make an Amsterdam street. I make thumbnail sketches in my sketchbook. if it's possible I make a study from a window. and a sketch for the details after my choice. The composition is mine anyhow.
- George Hendrik Breitner