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" "As far as I can remember, it was before my twelfth year that I was sketching cows in the mornings before and afternoons after school, and because my brothers were 4 and 6 years older than me – naturally I got from them my first teachings in drawing and later in painting. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
Willem Maris (18 February 1844, The Hague – 10 October 1910, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School, like his two brothers, Jacob Maris and Matthijs Maris. Willem was famous for his paintings with cows in the meadow in the daylight.
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version in original Dutch / citaat van Willem Maris, in het Nederlands: Bij Heyser [een café in Den Haag] kwamen de eerbiedwaardige ouden [schilders]: Smit-Cranz, Coelman e.a. Dat waren de hooge oomes, zie je. Wij waren de revolutionairen. En tegenwerking dat we hebben gehad! - In heeft tijdens onze eerste tentoonstelling een pamflet gelegen tegen ons. We werden uitgescholden voor 'modderschilders'.
version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Willem Maris: De koe is er om het licht, dat langs en over het dier komt glijden - het licht niet om de koe.
version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Willem Maris: Ik schilder geen koeien, maar licht.