Roman Opalka
[Artist, b. 1931, Hocquincourt, France, d. 2011, Rome.]
Art has a lot in common with madness. After all, why should one get involved with art? You can live normally like everyone else—which is to say, as stupidly as everyone else.
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These obsessions—death, disappearance, the irreversibility of time—are difficult, courageous, suicidal. In fact, my attitude has been likened to suicide, sacrifice. People have often thought I was the prisoner of my idea. In fact, I just couldn’t do anything else.
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