“Just start, your palette will help you. (if you worried about a painting or dread to start painting”

— Johannes Warnardus Bilders

version in original Dutch: Begin maar, je palet helpt je wel voort. (als je tobde over een schilderij of ertegenop zag om te beginnen)
Quoted by Maria Bilders-van Bosse, in her letter to A.C. Loffelt, 23 June 1895; from an excerpt of this letter https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/excerpts/763 in RKD-Archive, The Hague
his usual reaction if you worried about a painting or dread to start painting
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painter from the Northern Netherlands 1811–1890

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