Neo Rauch (b. 1960)

"I regard the process of painting as an extraordinarily natural process, a form of understanding the world very close to breathing, which is mainly unintentional on the exterior and which basically limits itself to the process of the concentrated flow. I am purposely neglecting to take all catalytic influences into consideration which could be in the position to make the occurrence lose its innocence."
N. Rauch quoted in Neo Rauch: Neue Rollen, Paintings 1993-2006, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 2006-2007, p. 96.