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"When you paint outdoors, you work from your feet up to above your head. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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Gerrit BennerWe didnt really appreciated him. We found him an imitator [early 1960s — Gerrit Benner
"We didnt really appreciated him. We found him an imitator [early 1960s]. All those little horses of him, they were just the horses of Hendrik Werkman. Not until he started to make those large colorful paintings with skies, he became an original artist. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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"Yes ssjjure, it is Fffriesland, seen from an airplane."
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"I paint from my head [about his move from rural Friesland to the city of Amsterdam]. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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"Its all about the atmosphere of nature, for sure, but I want the painting to arouse clarity, cheerfulness. When it is finished, then I have to live with it, thats why it must become a pleasant thing. Sun. Clarity. Never white-black, because there are so many shades in between! (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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"I love Friesland, but I dont feel myself a Frisian. I am a human being, be called Gerrit Benner, who paints.. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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"I am not a man of production, I am not a manufacturer. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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