Top 14 Arnulf Rainer Quotes
#1. The principles of my works ... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity ... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.
Arnulf Rainer
#2. I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
Natasha Tsakos
#3. The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli
#4. Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.
Arnulf Rainer
#5. Sometimes I had to force the overpainting of three corners almost without any feeling for shape, almost without inspiration, only to find my way back, to get out of this hell ...
Arnulf Rainer
#8. I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape of the picture again ... The pictures are alive because of the white remnant, the almost concealment.
Arnulf Rainer
#9. In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always open the curtains and chase me away. Today I work with a photographer.
Arnulf Rainer
#10. The 'total overpaintings' developed ... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.
Arnulf Rainer
#11. I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.
Arnulf Rainer
#12. One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.
Oprah Winfrey
#13. Why don't we keep track of the happy moments, so that afterward we will believe them? Is he the same man Was he really sincere?
Naguib Mahfouz
#14. I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.
Arnulf Rainer
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