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.
(translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

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version in original Dutch (citaat van Gerrit Benner, in het Nederlands:) Je moet niet aan het resultaat denken. Je moet de gedachte aan kunst van je afzetten, en dan jezelf zijn: rustig doorwandelen in jezelf, in je eigen gebied.

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Quote of Benner, as cited in a short text, announcing the exposition of Gerrit Benner in Stedelijk Museum, The Hague, 2010

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