You cannot know at all what will comes out of you because all your knowledge is running otherwise. What you do not know and what you thought that the… - Jozef Israëls

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You cannot know at all what will comes out of you because all your knowledge is running otherwise. What you do not know and what you thought that there would not come at all, that comes out and appears at once, sometimes with a curse and a sigh, and there you have it. - Everything ends well. I made things that I had forgotten for twenty five years. At first I knew them too well, but then I forgot them, I 'had to' forget them. And then I made them. - If some work does not becomes beautiful, well, then you go back to do something else. Worrying doesn't help at all. It will be better later? No, you should not say such things, because you don't know anything about 'becoming better'. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

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About Jozef Israëls

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. In Israëls' painting art the ordinary people are his dominating subject.

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Pen Names: Israels, Joseph
Alternative Names: Josef Israëls Jozef Israïls Jozef Israels Yosef Yiśraʼel's Joseph Israëls Josef Israels Josef Israêls Yosef Yiśra'el's Joseph Israels Yosef Yisrael's josef v. israels Israels jo.s israels jos. israel joseph israels jozeph israels J. Israels Isräel israels j. j. israel jos. jsraels israels jozef jos. israels josef israel jo. israels
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version in Dutch (citaat van Jozef Israëls, in het Nederlands): ..de eigenaar [van het schilderij 'Als men oud wordt', 1883].. ..moest er veel over hooren, men noemde het de apotheose van een schoudermantel, de figuur veel te groot voor het kader, enz. enz. [doorgestreept door Israëls:] zoodat men hem aanried het liever tegen wat anders bij mij te ruilen.

version in original Dutch (citaat van Jozef Israëls in Nederlands): Er zijn er die vinden dat het [de 'Nachtwacht', in het Rijksmuseum, 1884] er prachtig is [hangt], - het blinkt, het schatert even als een kermisstuk, maar is dat de manier waarop die grootste kunst moet worden tentoongesteld? Het is immers onnoodig om iets bij te brengen aan het toch reeds zoo sterke effect en het saamgedrongene der compositie, maar men moet weten, kennen en voelen, waar het hem eigentlijk bij Rembrandt om te doen is. Het is geen pretmaker of een schreeuwleelijk, het is een ernstige en breede kunst..

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