My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.

- Gunter Brus

For me, the Bild-Dichtung [image-poem] is the ideal form, because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. A…

- Gunter Brus

The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into t…

- Gunter Brus

Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its or…

- Gunter Brus

You become an artist to upset your family.

- Gunter Brus

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 a…

- Gunter Brus

Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the publi…

- Gunter Brus

Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.

- Gunter Brus

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 o…

- Gunter Brus