5 December 2025
“...go to a place (be invited for instance) have impressions there take things from the places where you have impressions (take really or mentally) bulbs from lamps, candy from stores, symbols from visions in dreams, symbols from visions in places, colors from clothes, colors from faces, colors from memory, colors from hope, colors from disgust make (as many as time allows, invitation allows, health allows, walls want, you want, people want) flat things (pictures) out of the taken things copy them photographically, make portraits of them, describe them, make remarks about them, divide them, alter them, keep them, give them have machines doing the same for you, more for you, more for somebody else, more for themselves make pictures out of things, feelings, visions, remarks, accidents which come from those pictures make (at any time) a pile from the pictures you like, somebody likes, certain people like, nobody likes and bind them as a book...”
—Dieter Roth (from Offhand Design, 1975)