Gunter Brus Quotes & Sayings

Color will play no part in the art of future. — Gunter Brus

My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result. — Gunter Brus

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. — Gunter Brus

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. — Gunter Brus

Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose. — Gunter Brus

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air. — Gunter Brus

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. — Gunter Brus

The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart. — Gunter Brus

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. — Gunter Brus

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. — Gunter Brus

My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls. — Gunter Brus

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth. — Gunter Brus

You become an artist to upset your family. — Gunter Brus

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. — Gunter Brus

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 — Gunter Brus

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