“The cosmic also keeps me busy, more than the other 'Nieuwe Vizie' ['New Vison'-artists]. For me it means the feeling of forces in nature like electricity, radio, radar, and of forces that one only suspects, and has not been able yet to track down scientifically.”

— Roger Raveel

version in original Flemish (citaat van Roger Raveel, in het Vlaams): Het kosmische houdt ook mij, wel het meest van De Nieuwe Vizie [-kunstenaars] bezig: het betekent voor mij een aanvoelen van krachten in de natuur als elektriciteit, radio, radar, en van krachten die men slechts vermoedt en wetenschappelijk nog niet heeft kunnen achterhalen.
Quote of Raveel 1974, in the article 'Roger Raveel en zijn keuze uit het Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Gent' http://www.tento.be/sites/default/files/tijdschrift/pdf/OKV1975/Roger%20Raveel%20en%20zijn%20keuze%20uit%20het%20Museum%20voor%20Schone%20Kunsten%20in%20Gent.pdf, ed. Ludo Bekkers; in Dutch art-magazine 'Openbaar Kunstbezit', January-March 1975, p. 13
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