“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.”

—  Günter Brus

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 218 (1987)

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