I always did drawings. Then, few years ago, I started working with large-scale paper. It's an extension of performance, because the pieces are the si…

- Rebecca Horn

Sometimes I go to sleep thinking, "I don't like this painting." But then I wake up in the morning, look at it again and think, "Actually, that's not …

- Rebecca Horn

Méret Oppenheim was a very erotic woman. She also liked provocation, and if you could provoke surrealists at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, or simil…

- Rebecca Horn

You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.

- Rebecca Horn

I met Méret Oppenheim when I was a very young artist just coming to New York. She really liked my early films and showed them in her beautiful old ci…

- Rebecca Horn

Of course at that time, especially here in America, we were dealing with women's liberation. Things weren't so easy then. Méret Oppenheim wasn't so d…

- Rebecca Horn

Méret's Oppenheim art was aesthetically beautiful. Drinking champagne and eating a cherry off some tits, this is no big deal really.

- Rebecca Horn

This idea of the body as a feast, it stems from Giuseppe Arcimboldo, moves to Viennese artists like Günter Brus, and then you have Salvador Dalí of c…

- Rebecca Horn

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

- Rebecca Horn