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Gerrit Benner
12 quotes
“When you paint outdoors, you work from your feet up to above your head. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Gerrit Benner (1897–1981) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Gerrit Benner, c. 1950-1955, in a talk with ; as cited in the thesis by Leo Delfgauw, University of Groningen, 2017, p 221
“Yes ssjjure, it is Fffriesland, seen from an airplane.”
Gerrit Benner (1897–1981) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Gerrit Benner (early 1950's); as cited in 'Gerrit Benner geboeid door Friese wolkenluchten', Sytse Singelsma, 4 March 2015
“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)”
Gerrit Benner (1897–1981) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Benner (1961), in interview 'Benner: ik leef hier bijna net zo geïsoleerd als in Leeuwarden', Dutch newspaper 'Leeuwarder Courant', 20 Dec. 1961
“I am not a man of production, I am not a manufacturer. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Gerrit Benner (1897–1981) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote (1961), in 'Benner: ik leef hier bijna net zo geïsoleerd als in Leeuwarden', Dutch newspaper 'Leeuwarder Courant', 20 Dec. 1961; as cited by Susan van den Berg in 'Benner en Bregman', website 'de Moanne', 1 Sept. …
“I paint from my head [about his move from rural Friesland to the city of Amsterdam]. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Gerrit Benner (1897–1981) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted by Hans Redeker (before 1967), in Gerrit Benner; Meulenhoff, Amsterdam, 1967; as cited by Susan van den Berg in 'Benner en Bregman', website 'de Moanne', 1 Sept. 2008, note xix
“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! (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Gerrit Benner (1897–1981) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted by Hans Redeker (before 1967), in Gerrit Benner; Meulenhoff, Amsterdam, 1967; as cited by Susan van den Berg in 'Benner en Bregman', website 'de Moanne', 1 Sept. 2008, note xx
“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 (1897–1981) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gerrit Benner (1971), in an interview with K. Peerebooms: 'Jarenlang schilderen zonder een klankbord'; Dutch newspaper 'Het Parool', 3 Nov. 1971
“And I painted on and on, coarsely - not skillful at all and rather clumsy.. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Gerrit Benner (1897–1981) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Benner (1971) on his early painter-years in an interview; as cited by Janneke Wesseling in 'Water, Lucht en Vlak Land', in Dutch newspaper 'N.R.C.', 16 Oct. 2014
“In the city you can lose yourself; that's a good thing. It doesn't work in a small city. In Leeuwarden [in Friesland, where Benner lived until c. 1954] 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. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Gerrit Benner (1897–1981) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: version in original Dutch (citaat van Gerrit Benner, in het Nederlands:) In de stad kun je jezelf verliezen, en dat is goed. In een kleine stad gaat dat niet. In Leeuwarden [waar Benner woonde tot c. 1954] kwam je jezel…
“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.”
Gerrit Benner (1897–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Benner, as cited in a short text, announcing the exposition of Gerrit Benner in Stedelijk Museum, The Hague, 2010
“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. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Gerrit Benner (1897–1981) first seen 1850 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Gerrit Benner, in: Gerrit Benner, G. Westenberg en E. van Dooren , Harlingen 2005, p. 4; as cited in Lucht in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer; catalogue of Frans Halsmuseum Haarlem, 2014, p …
“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. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Gerrit Benner (1897–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source