(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Anton Mauve, in het Nederlands:) Je gaat naar buiten, steekt je pijpje op, fluit een deuntje en schildert wat je tegenkomt.
 • Mauve's advice to his students; as cited by H.L. Berckenhoff, in Anton Mauve, Etsen van Ph. Zilcken, met fascimiles naar schilderijen, teekeningen en studies, Amsterdam 1890, (microfiche RKD-Archive Den Haag: Berckenhoff, 1890, p. 20)
 • Mauve's way of painting was in fact the opposite of his advice: often changing and much struggle
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You go outside, light your pipe, whistle a tune and just paint what you come across. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

— Anton Mauve

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "You go outside, light your pipe, whistle a tune and just paint what you come across. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)" in the context of "(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Anton Mauve, in het Nederlands:) Je gaat naar buiten, steekt je pijpje op, fluit een deuntje en schildert wat je tegenkomt.
 • Mauve's advice to his students; as cited by H.L. Berckenhoff, in Anton Mauve, Etsen van Ph. Zilcken, met fascimiles naar schilderijen, teekeningen en studies, Amsterdam 1890, (microfiche RKD-Archive Den Haag: Berckenhoff, 1890, p. 20)
 • Mauve's way of painting was in fact the opposite of his advice: often changing and much struggle" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Anton Mauve

About Anton Mauve

Anton Mauve (Zaandam, 18 Sept. 1838 - Laren, 5 Feb. 1888) was a Dutch landscape painter and a leading member of the Hague School; in The Netherlands he became famous as the 'sheep'-painter. Mauve was frequently painting in open air with Willem Maris and Gerard Bilders around the village Oosterbeek. He had a significant early influence on his cousin-in-law Vincent van Gogh.