21 quotes
Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
Color will play no part in the art of future.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
You become an artist to upset your family.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
In simple terms: art has not been a public nuisance for quite a while now. either the people have become well-behaved or the perpetrators of nuisances have become tired.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
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.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
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.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
I hate people,who force their way through at traffic accidents to see blood. They...rape and dismember virgins,and have orgies.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
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.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
My thinking at that time was determined by a kind of willfully repressed pleasure[Freude] in Freud ,and I wanted to be as artistically direct as plumber illustrating the history of art with a spanner.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
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.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
Analogously to Arnulf Rainer′s ‘overpaintings’,and extending these with my own actionistic resources, the artist′s head should be in the picture ,should become one with the picture, and disappear in it.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
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.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
In a certain sense,I never left Actionism as I understood it to this very day. Today,I work in “sittings” that are very similar to the course of the actions. Only the stage has changed on which the presentation takes place.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
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.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)
“Ritual” might be an acceptable term, if shorn of its overtly religious connotations.For me,breaking taboos became nothing less than a stylistic means. I allowed my body, my self, to be pushed into such extreme situations that certain norms of social behaviour could only appear utterly absurd to me.
Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)