About Marianne Schuit
“In every work of art I see, no matter how bad it is, there is
always something which inspires me.”
“All I do is follow my intuition. I do not know, I feel.”
“I only have to see a work of art once. From then on I will
bear it in my mind.”
“I find it a rather saddening thought that Meta-art would have
ended such a great tradition.”
“Picasso always moves me.”
“The fact that I had little time to paint, was very much to
the advantage of my art: I could only focus on what was
really essential.”
“Artistically I am extremely easily bored, which makes it impossible
for me to work in series. What needs to be expressed, needs to
be expressed in one Meta-painting taking the possibilities
of some idea all the way to their very limits.”
“A Meta-painting needs to be on the very edge of its possibilities,
anything less lacks necessity, which makes it boring.”
“If I would not have become an artist, it is most likely I
would have been a scientist.”
“I do not express myself, I report.”
“I do not search for anything. I do not find anything.
Something presents itself to me and I have to report about
it, more or less like a scientist.”
“Mick says that I needed to create genuine art at such an early
age, becasue I am not able to lie. An interesting thought.”
“I love all colours, but I never use them for their own sake.
They just have to fit the idea I express in the best possible
way.”
“I do not want to impress anyone with my Meta-paintings, but I myself do want to be impressed by the ideas I have to express. If they do not impress me, they are not worth expressing.”
“In mentally disabled I recognize a lack of restrictions I feel
at home with.”
“I am very much impressed by the thought of being part of
something great like nature, the universe. I guess in Meta-art
you will find the deep bond I feel with the greatness I am a
tiny part of.”
“It is true, basically my style hasn’t changed for the last
twenty years. But it is this style which enables me to
express what needs to be expressed. Any other style would
restrict me unbearably. Any other style would make Meta-art
more personal and with that shallower, which means not Meta-art
at all.”
Marianne Schuit, Tate Modern, London, 2010
“When I was a young child I already had the mind
of an adult. As an adult I have always had the
mind of a young child. I have always been both.”
“There is a part of life I do not live.”
“I have never seen art as a way to make myself
important in the eyes of other people. Still I find
it important that they see Meta-art. Not as a
person, but as part of something you could call
‘general human understanding’.”
“I have never seen art as a way to make myself
important in my own eyes either.”
“I have to make Meta-art. Something is telling me
this. I do not know what it is. I only know I have
to submit all my talents to it or otherwise it will
never find the expression it needs.”
“What needs to be expressed can be expressed in a
simple way. If not, it is not worth expressing at
all.”
“I really would like to be able to tell what my art
is all about, but I can’t. Everything I can say
about it is so futile, I feel ashamed to the bone
while I am saying it.”
“Meta-art could only be made in our times. Even in
Mondrian’s days it would not have been possible
to create it.”
Marianne Schuit, Hyde Park, London, 2011
