Thomas Bernhard // "Art altogether is nothing but a survival skill, we should never lose sight of this fact, it is, time and again, just an attempt…an attempt that seems touching even to our intellect…to cope with this world and its revolting aspects… All these pictures…are an expression of man's absolute helplessness in coping with himself and with what surrounds him all his life. That is what all these pictures express, this helplessness which, on the one hand, embarasses the intellect and, on the other hand, bewilders the same intellect and moves it to tears."