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- Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
- 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…
- As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that…
- 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:…
- I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what you…
- But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts…
- 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…
- 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…
- ... 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,…
- 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,…
- There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so crazy, for nothing.…
- I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They…
- Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.
- I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost,…
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