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Yes ssjjure, it is Fffriesland, seen from an airplane.

— Gerrit Benner

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Quote of Gerrit Benner (early 1950's); as cited in 'Gerrit Benner geboeid door Friese wolkenluchten', Sytse Singelsma, 4 March 2015 | Benner's stammering response, when young inhabitants of Leeuwarden criticized him on painting their Friesland as just one simple green surface

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When you paint outdoors, you work from your feet up to above your head. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

And I painted on and on, coarsely - not skillful at all and rather clumsy.. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

I am not a man of production, I am not a manufacturer. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

I paint from my head [about his move from rural Friesland to the city of Amsterdam]. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

Don't bother about the result. Throw away your thinking of art, and then become yourself: just walk quietly in yourself, in your own ground.
(translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

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