“..it's a pity that he [Anton Mauve] is so limited, he was here Sunday and Monday and I talked to him a lot, I think he is a bit of a week; very sensitive, a warm man, but so simple and round. Yet I thought he was even more limited, he admitted that direction [in painting] is nonsense and that everything depends on personality; he strongly advised me to paint many large figures in open air; don't talk about it to anyone: it's nobody's business.. (translation, Fons Heijnsbroek)”