“I think my actions, like those of my associates, were possible in this form only in vienna. Our heritage was the vienna secession and Austrian expression, and that, along with the violent disapproval of our work, explains not only its frequently overwrought and aggressive character, but also its radical psychological insights.”

— Günter Brus

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 135 (2002)

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