4 Quotes & Sayings By Meindert Dejong

Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Meindert DeJong moved to America at the age of 16. He attended art school and began painting oils and watercolors as a lifelong hobby. In little more than a decade, DeJong became one of America's most successful portrait painters. His work was displayed in many prominent museums and institutions Read more

After his death, his collection of oil paintings was donated to the Smithsonian Institution and his museum holdings were donated to the National Museum of American Art.

If you just go on dreaming then it stays a...
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If you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true Meindert DeJong
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Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn't really in the whistle, the longing is in you–for the wonder and the loveliness that is in the world, and everywhere. Meindert DeJong
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The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle–it is in you. Meindert DeJong