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I love Friesland, but I don't feel myself a Frisian. I am a human being, be called Gerrit Benner, who paints.. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

— Gerrit Benner

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Source: version in original Dutch (citaat van Gerrit Benner, in het Nederlands:) Ik hou van Friesland, maar ik voel me geen Fries. Ik ben een mens, die Gerrit Benner heet, die schildert..
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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)

The further I get, the more I stand at the beginning. I'am Benner, but I do not say, I got it. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

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Gerrit Benner (1971), in an interview with K. Peerebooms: 'Jarenlang schilderen zonder een klankbord'; Dutch newspaper 'Het Parool', 3 Nov. 1971

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

When you paint outdoors, you work from your feet up to above your head. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

And I painted on and on, coarsely - not skillful at all and rather clumsy.. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

I am not a man of production, I am not a manufacturer. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)

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