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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.

— Günter Brus Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)

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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.

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

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My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.

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Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

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