“For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.”
As quoted in "Neo Rauch: ‘For Me, Painting Means the Continuation of Dreaming by other Means’" at the Goethe-Institut (February 2007) http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/kab/en2085683.htm
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Neo Rauch1
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