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.

Gunter Brus

#2. The bigger your opponents, the bigger your prey.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Gunter Brus

#4. I will thank you to stay out of my affairs. Or need I remind you that it is not Stanhope whom I'e had to be wary of on balconies recently?

Sarah MacLean

#5. 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.

Gunter Brus

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

Gunter Brus

#7. 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.

Gunter Brus

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

Gunter Brus

#9. For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

Seth Lloyd

#10. 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.

Gunter Brus

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

Gunter Brus

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

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

Gunter Brus

#14. When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.

Richard Donner

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

Gunter Brus

#16. 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.

Gunter Brus

#17. Make an offer they can't refuse.

John Caples

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

Gunter Brus

#19. Science probes; it does not prove.

Gregory Bateson

#20. When food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

Pope Francis

#21. 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.

Gunter Brus

#22. The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

Christian Bale

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

Gunter Brus