"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."

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

“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. Sun. Clarity. Never white-black, because there are so many shades in between!”

“In the city you can lose yourself; that's a good thing. It doesn't work in a small city. In Leeuwarden you always met yourself again and again. But in Amsterdam there is too much to do, that isn't possible here. It's a beautiful city where I revive.”

“biographic information of the RKD, only in Dutch language”

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

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