8 Künstler über Kunst

"I remember a pretty well known critic said to me 'Anybody that believes what an artist has to say about their work is a damn fool'. So I think I was trying to counteract that. I am always more interested in what an artist has to say about their work."

7 Karel Martens

In verschiedenen Veröffentlichungen verwendet Karel Martens immer wieder folgende Aufzählung von Farbnamen als Künstlerstatement:

"it's a matter of common sense and instinct
somewhere there is a box with the right answer.
it's about finding this box and the key to open it.
the only thing you have to do is to make it Alice blue.

6 Sonia Delaunay

"Krokodil, Kaktus, Korinthe und Kapuzinerkresse sind einige der Namen, die Sonia Delaunay ihren Farben gegeben hat; solche Namen personalisieren und organisieren eine Palette, die den Wörtern und Bildern, die Delaunay gemalt hat, und den Textilien, die sie gestaltet hat, Bedeutung verleihen."*

5 Keith Haring

"I am becoming much more aware of movement. The importance of movement is intensified when a painting becomes a performance. The performance (the act of painting) becomes as important as the resulting painting."

4 Mit Stoff

"In Jessica Warboys work acts of performance, narrative and contemporary rituals are combined with the sea and the sun to create canvases on a large scale that capture both the traces of a performance and the unpredictable movements of the wind and the waves,"

3 Aus Stoff heraus

“Simply to hang a painting on the wall and say that it’s art is dreadful. The whole network is important! Even spaghettini … When you say art, then everything possible belongs to it. In a gallery that is also the floor, the architecture, the color of the walls.”
   Martin Kippenberger spricht hier davon Bezüge an die Wand zu bringen. Er verlinkt in diesem Beispiel Malerei mit Pasta.
David Joselit, "Painting Beside Itself", October Vol. 103, Fall 2009

2 In Stoff hinein

"Deshalb ist die Horizontale auch eine Lage der Solidarität"
   Aus Franz Xaver Bayer, Der Raum, 2000