between the artist and the spectator as reported by Raimund Stecker when commemorating the art historian Max Imdahl - a translation:
How does one reach the spectator's very own expertise?! -That's a deeply artistic way of thinking. An artist, my god, an artist enters his studio in the morning. He wants to create something that nobody needs; wants to create something for which there is no market; wants to create something that nobody has assigned him to do. He simply does it. He must unbelievably believe in the fact that what he does is of interest to anybody apart from himself. That was (Max) Imdahl's approach to art: There is something. Does one have to understand it? No! But he wanted to understand it and he had the energy to share this desire to understand with his students, readers, the people who attended his lectures; to take them on this - I don't know what it is - this excursion, without knowing where one will end up.
Embrace it all!
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