Rebecca Horn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.
-- Rebecca Horn

#Art #Transformation
You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.
-- Rebecca Horn

#Artist #Past #Focus
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 so bad."
-- Rebecca Horn

#Morning #Sleep #Thinking
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 size of my full body. I use pencils, acrylic, watercolors, and I also incorporate textual messages. I did most of them in a monastery in Spain at the top of a mountain. I lived there a bit like a monk. I meditate quite often. At night, which is when I like to work, I like to think I have conversations with Francisco Goya. He died so many years ago, of course, but somehow, his ghost is always with me.
-- Rebecca Horn

#Night #Thinking #Mountain
This idea of the body as a feast, it stems from Giuseppe Arcimboldo, moves to Viennese artists like GÃ¼nter Brus, and then you have Salvador DalÃ of course, then much later, Marina AbramoviÄ‡ and Ulay, with their nude series in Italy. It's an ongoing conversation. There was nothing cruel about MÃ©ret's Oppenheim piece.
-- Rebecca Horn

#Moving #Artist #Stem
MÃ©ret Oppenheim was a very erotic woman. She also liked provocation, and if you could provoke surrealists at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, or similar Dadaist hangouts in Basel, where you could normally get away with these things, you were truly a provocateur.
-- Rebecca Horn

#Get Away #Cabaret #Provoking
Of course at that time, especially here in America, we were dealing with women's liberation. Things weren't so easy then. MÃ©ret Oppenheim wasn't so directly involved in this - she was in her 60s at that point. She found her strength through competing with the great male artists of her time; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp.
-- Rebecca Horn

#Artist #Easy #Liberation
MÃ©ret's Oppenheim art was aesthetically beautiful. Drinking champagne and eating a cherry off some tits, this is no big deal really.
-- Rebecca Horn

#Beautiful #Art #Drinking
I met MÃ©ret 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 cinema in Bern, Switzerland when I didn't have the money to go back. But, "fear-love," this really means "shy love." It's about holding something back. With MÃ©ret, there was nothing oppressive or demonstrative about her affection. It was very soft.
-- Rebecca Horn

#Beautiful #Mean #Artist

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.
The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.
And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
The Holy Spirit accompanies God's Word to bring revelation of Christ, resulting in transformation.
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

Rebecca Horn famous quotes

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