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- Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and…
- The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too.…
- Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications.…
- Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little…
- As a matter of fact, it was only through the dealer Fred Jahn that I succeeded in overcoming my reservation about the works on paper…
- Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world;…
- 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…
- 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…
- I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.
- 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…
- Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
- I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.…
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