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protokolle 1967 Vienna

What you see, what you have seen, cannot be completely forgotten.
That is why there are no contrived images, no truly non-objective images.
An object is what makes the picture meaningful.
This meaningful content coincides with the form and the technique.
Only an airhead can claim that a picture is bad but well painted, or that the creator has imagination without form, and so on.
Inevitably, the content of the picture has a figurative character, because what one means can also be communicated in a context.
The sign in front of nature supports this figurative thinking. The tree, the child, the nude, they behave like proportional models for the draughtsman, he learns to transfer spatial sizes to surfaces from them, he learns to think logically.
The history of art knows only logical pictures, each of which is a world in itself and yet made under the impression and with the experience of reality; it must meet all demands, even those made by fools: the schoolmaster, for whom form is enough, the superficial, who sees only technique, and the fool, who demands nothing but content.