Gerrit Benner

"A painting is good if it is not finished. Just like ideas. Finished ideas are dead.. .Everything is floating, just as in life – also life will never get ready."

"I love nature, what is not beautiful in nature, there are no ugly things. Sometimes the world oppresses me and then I always go back to nature, the source of all things."

"Impression of the Benner exhibitions in museum Belvédère, Oranjewoud and in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, 2015 - with a lot of images of the painting art of Gerrit Benner"

"I love Friesland, but I don't feel myself a Frisian. I am a human being, be called Gerrit Benner, who paints.."

"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."

"biographic information of the RKD, only in Dutch language"

"It's all about the atmosphere of nature, for sure, but I want the painting to arouse clarity, cheerfulness. When it is finished, then I have to live with it, that's why it must become a pleasant thing…"

"When you paint outdoors, you work from your feet up to above your head."