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Although I can look a bit grumpy myself, I love it when the sun shines in the water, but besides that I think my country is colored and what I partic… - Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël
" "Although I can look a bit grumpy myself, I love it when the sun shines in the water, but besides that I think my country is colored and what I particularly noticed when I came from abroad: our country is colored sappy fat, that's why our beautiful- colored and built cattle, their flesh, milk and butter, nowhere you can find this, but they [the cows] are also fed by that sappy, greasy and colored land - I have often heard strangers say, those Dutch painters all paint gray and their land is green.. ..the more I observe the more colored and transparent nature becomes and then the air seen altogether, something very different and yet so [strong] in harmony, it is delightful when one has learned to see, because that too must be learned, I repeat, our country is not gray, even not in gray weather, the dunes aren't gray either. (translation from the Dutch original: Fons Heijnsbroek)
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About Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël
Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël or Paul Gabriël (Amsterdam, 5 July 1828 – The Hague, 23 August 1903) was a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, and etcher who belonged to the Dutch Hague School. He painted frequently landscape-paintings in open air.
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Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel
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Paul Gabriël
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Paul Joseph Constantin Gabrieël
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P.J.C. Gabriël
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Constant Gabriël
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Constan Gabriël
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Gabriel
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P. G. C. Gabriel
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P. J. C. Gabriel
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..keep working quietly and have faith in what I tell you, never ask how someone else did it or is doing, try to understand nature, observe everything, try to learn to see and find your easiest way to represent it; one can make different choices from nature, follow what the heart tells you, for which you feel the most.. ..search for what contains effect, something what wants to tell clear things. (translation from the Dutch original: Fons Heijnsbroek)
version in original Dutch / citaat van Paul Gabriël, in Nederlands: O, wat dat betreft, dan moet ge maar eens goed opletten, hoe in ieder gewest van ons land het plattegrond er geheel anders uitziet; niet alleen het weiland heeft een andere tint, maar de koeien zijn anders, ja de menschen hebben als 't ware het karakter aangenomen van den grond zij zijn geboren en getogen. Dat is zoo sterk, dat toen ik met nog in Brussel woonde [vroege 1860's] en wij in 't mooie gedeelte van het seizoen naar Holland plachten te gaan om studies te maken, Roelofs wanneer hij thuis kwam, mij niet behoefde te zeggen waar hij geweest was. Ik zag het aan zijn werk en één voor één noemde ik hem de plekjes van ons vaderland, waar hij op studietocht van het land en de bewoners schetsen had gemaakt.
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