Günter Brus: Artist

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“My thinking at that time was determined by a kind of wilfully 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

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 12 (Introductory text to the portfolio Transfusion,1990.)

“You become an artist to upset your family.”

Günter Brus

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 51 (Gunter Brus.Nach uns die Malflut!Pheoretische Poesien.Klagenfurt:Ritter Verlag,2003, p. 135)

“Analogously to Arnulf Rainer′s ‘overpaintings’, and extending thse with my own actionistic resources, the artist′s head should be in the picture, should become one with the picture, and disappear in it.”

Günter Brus

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 12 (Gunter Brus inDie Schastrommel.Organ der österreichischen Exilregierung.Bolzano:ed. Gunter Brus,June 1972,no.8a, p. 57.)

“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.”

Günter Brus

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 226 (2003)

“Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is, in my opinion, passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts, but as far as I am concerned, this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings, I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.”

Günter Brus

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 208 (1993)