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- 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,…
- 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…
- 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,…
- If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification:…
- Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional criteria I had…
- A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity…
- When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel…
- As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They…
- ... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful,…
- The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state, that was very…
- But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000,…
- I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement,…
- And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white…
- There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for…
- With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen.…
- Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different…
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