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+ The reality is the picture, it is most certainly
not in the picture.
+ I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture
takes over. Then there is the struggle between
the idea I preconceived.. and the picture that
fights for its own life.
+ ...I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint
their pictures, their work as painters, and their
portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these
portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with
blonde hair. I myself have never been able to
work out why this happens.
+ I always rejected any connection with the expressionist
or neo-expressionist tradition. Unlike the expressionists,
I have never been interested in renewing the world
through the vehicle of art.
+ I always feel attacked when I'm asked about
my painting.
+ I love my old paintings as postulates, as fresh
starting points, but I have to destroy them. I
have to make a new manifesto.
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What counts most is finding new ways to get the
world down in paint on my own terms.
+ The artist is not responsible to any one. His
social role is asocial.. his only responsibility
consists in an attitude to the work he does.
+ I always work out of uncertainty but when a
painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently
a final statement. In time though, uncertainty
returns.. your thought process goes on.
+ Changes in style result from intellectual processes.
I continually try to find something new so that
I can change. I still do it today.
+ I don't like things that can be reproduced.
Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the
fact that objects made in it are unique, simple,
unpretentious.
+ I had always loved expressionist painting, like
every European. In fact I admired it all the more
because these were precisely the paintings despised
by my father's generation.
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