Gunter Brus Quotes

The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.

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.

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

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

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.

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.

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.

You become an artist to upset your family.

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.

My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.