Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time.… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self. — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I had to force the overpainting of three corners almost without any feeling for shape, almost without inspiration, only to find my way… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely. — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
