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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.

— Günter Brus Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006)

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Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

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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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