Hendrik Werkman

"As paint I use lightfast printing ink, usually pure, but also mixed. Mixing is not difficult at all, it but can happen in very different ways. Secret means are not applied, but I can not work on them,…"

"the art-critic has provided the products of my lab with a label: 'abracadabra'.. .. one can not speak about abracadabra-ism, and that is its advantage on all –isms: it doesn't know time and limits and…"

"At a given moment there comes a time that you kick off everything, the whole mess and relieved you are walking further the path. Then the temptations come: Shouldn't I do this in another way, shall I …"

"Last Sunday we made a bicycle tour of 80 km. Through the North along the edge of the province .. ..On such a day I get again a lot of impressions which will reappear in altered forms in due time. Beau…"

"For me, life would be worthless if there was not modern art and if I did not had the opportunity to express myself in it anyhow, now that I have gradually found the way I can express myself."

"one print gets born from the other one, and that is exactly the right thing of it - it keeps the mind ready."

"I have composed here so many prints from the immediate surroundings around me - starting with the chimneys and the pigeons and the passing ships, the staircase, the labyrinth of corridors and doors, t…"

"I will keep for you the small drawings that I usually make beforehand. They don't have any artistic value. I just make them to have some grip for the composition of the print.."