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- Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious…
- Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth…
- Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
- Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason,…
- Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
- Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make…
- Art is the highest form of hope.
- I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false
- Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by…
- Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective…
- I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a…
- When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to…
- Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity…
- To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the…
- Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the…
- That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers…
- I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now…
- Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only…
- As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that…
- Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was also very limited,…
- It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein…
- I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember,…
- It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't…
- A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of…
- But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and…
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