“Painting to abandon painting:
using the painting itself to escape the world of painting and to abandon the culture of this world, to expose it without participating in it, to reveal it as a replacement for our deficient and lost metaphysical connection (in whose essence there are no actions, no missions, no evidence, no art), to reveal it as a pure connection between the aesthetic and the metaphysical. Be an artist and scorn art.”
[Arnulf Rainer, Hirndrang 1980, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg and Retrospketive 1950-1977]