When you paint outdoors, you work from your feet up to above your head. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
— Gerrit Benner
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Quote of Gerrit Benner, c. 1950-1955, in a talk with nl:Willem den Ouden; as cited in the thesis by Leo Delfgauw, University of Groningen, 2017, p 221
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