‘I find there's so much beauty to be found under a Dutch sky, that I'd never seen before, that it always feels new and untouched.’

Floris Verster, 1895

‘Later, when the colours of things carried him into a stupor and he created in lyrical observation his cockerels, thistles, leaves and flowers, there then came a moment when he felt he was failing them.’

Albert Verwey

‘It's becoming intensely coloured, as if gold and glitter are dripping from the clusters of flowers.’

Jenny Kamerlingh Onnes