Het Quotes

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities; and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order then these possibilities will have a chance and you will het Progress. One can define the classical quite clearly as the exact opposite to this. Man is an extraordinary fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organization that anything decent can be got out of him. (T. E. Hulme)
.. it [his watercolor 'New Flower' ['Het Bloempje', 1880] is one of those pictures, I did my best to finish it highly, as the story is nice and pleasant [where] other pictures may be more necessarily rough or strong being paint in an other mood. But this new flower needed a tender hand and conspicuous attention for details. View quote
Jozef Israëls
The picture of the 'New Flower' ['Het Bloempje', 1880] is really one of those I did with much idea of having to express loveliness and youth both in human feeling and in the naturally plants of flowers, and If I may say don't you find, that I have succeed in this composition? View quote
Jozef Israëls
My life began when my grandmother decided to take hers, when I found out that my mother's whole family did the same thing [told bij het grandfather c. 1941], when I found out that I am the only one surviving, and when I felt the same inclination deep inside of me, craving for despair and death. View quote
Charlotte Salomon
There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for. View quote
Tadanobu Asano
Hier bij Ajax ligt mijn hart, een club fascinerend, altijd apart. Door velen genoemd naar godenzonen, voor mij de bakermat van voetbaliconen. Mijn herinneringen gaan terug naar De Meer, ook daar heerste een bijzondere sfeer. Nu ga ik mijn gevoelens weer achterna, en treed technisch toe in de Arena. In mijn levensfase is dit een nieuwe kans, en mijn jeugdliefde krijgt een extra stimulans. En daarom klinkt het vol overgave uit mijn mond, vandaag is de cirkel echt rond. Here with Ajax lies my heart, a club fascinating, always unique. By many named after sons of gods, for me the origin of football icons. My memories return to De Meer, there too was found a special atmosphere. Now I go after my feelings, and technically enter the Arena. In my life phase this is a new chance, and my childhood love gets an extra impulse. And that's why I state with full conviction, today the circle is really complete. View quote
Louis van Gaal
Explanatory version: Ah Rembrandt, try to paint Cornelis Anslo's voice / What one sees of his appearance is so little of him / What you can't see of him you can learn through hearing. / Those wanting a complete impression of him will have to hear him (preach). (transl. Aernout Hagen, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam) View quote
Rembrandt