There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboon... shot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremb...le. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way.... I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he become...s historical. He acts from or upon other artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theore...tically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we ca...n hope for is to put some order into ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »