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- In 1981, I think, for the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf. Before that I designed a mirror room for Kasper König's Westkunst show, but it was never… All
- What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any… Addition
- I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was never… Abstraction
- My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least provide understanding. In… Art
- The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but because MoMA asked… Art
- I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this… Art
- The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing… Always Correct
- Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw myself as a… All
- I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression. Absolutely
- The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour -… Affect
- Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these problems can only… Apparent
- I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a… Aestheticism
- Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness… Art
- Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making… Accelerate
- Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my… Appropriate
- The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even… All
- I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth. I… Actually Wanted
- A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the… Accumulated
- Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so… Actually Quite
- Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint. Art
- I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all. All
- If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary… Arbitrary
- My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'... All
- Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. Art
- You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly… Accept
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