Gunter Brus Quotes

#1. For me,the Bild-Dichtung [image-poem] is the ideal form,because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing,the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements.

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#2. My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.

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#3. Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.

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#4. Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

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#5. Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the peace and public order.

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#6. Color will play no part in the art of future.

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#7. I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.

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#8. Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

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#9. You become an artist to upset your family.

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#10. Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.

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#11. The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.

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#12. The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.

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#13. Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

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#14. As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.

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#15. My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.

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