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

“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”

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

“I am not a man of production, I am not a manufacturer.”