Gunter Brus Quotes

• My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.

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  Events, Body, Intention

  Günter Brus, Centre Georges Pompidou (1993). “Limite du visible”

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

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  Beautiful, Art, Purpose

  Günter Brus, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1980). “Günter Brus, Bild-Dichtungen: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 4 June-13 July 1980 ...”, Trustees of Whitechapel Art Gallery

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• Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience

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  Wall, Self, Support

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

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  Art, Hot, Looks

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• You become an artist to upset your family.

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  Artist, Upset, Our Family

  "Nach uns die Malflut! Theoretische Poesien". Book by Gunter Brus (p. 135), 2003.

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• Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.

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  Art, Believe, Drawing

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• 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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  Order, White, Nuisance

  "Gunter Brus: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber (p. 14), 2005.

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• Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

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  Poetry Is

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Günter Brus, Monika Faber, Actar, 2005.

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• 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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  Writing, Drawing, Effort

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.

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  Heart, Cutting, Strokes

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• Color will play no part in the art of future.

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  Art, Color, Play

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• 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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  White, Space, Three

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

  Gunter Brus

  Mistake, Writing, Air

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.

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  Visuals, Margins

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• 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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  Art, Home, Restoration

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon" by Gunter Brus, edit by Monika Faber, Actar, (p. 226), 2005.

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• 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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  Struggle, Views, Alive

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• 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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  Boys, Echoes, Experts

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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