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I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.

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Arnulf Rainer

The principles of my works. . . are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity. . . My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.

Contemplative, Dark, Expression, Extinction, Silence, Tranquillity
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I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape of the picture again. . . The pictures are alive because of the white remnant, the almost concealment.

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Sometimes I had to force the overpainting of three corners almost without any feeling for shape, almost without inspiration, only to find my way back, to get out of this hell.

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the 'total overpaintings' developed. . . through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.

Edges, Incessant, Motif, Motifs, Originals, Reworking

Only an 'almost,' a 'nearly,' is possible.

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In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always open the curtains and chase me away. Today I work with a photographer.

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