“I was kindly received by him [Gerrit Benner] and then he talked, with his crooked nose - because he had fallen off the chest as a child and his nose was crooked. And then he was sniffing all the time. Like: 'Yes, yes, the grass, the grass'. Then he said at some point: 'When you paint outdoors, you work from your feet up to above your head'. Well, just as simple as that, but you have to discover it yourself. You should try it. And that's it, that' it, for sure. That is one of the best lessons I ever got, that one remark by Gerrit Benner. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”