Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Leeuwarden
- Awards
- 🏆 Prijs van de Stichting Kunstenaarsverzet
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"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."
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1897
Born
Birth1983
Died
Death
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