Statement – Buren, Mosset, Parmentier & Toroni

Because painting is a game,

Because painting is the application (consciously or otherwise) of the rules of composition,

Because painting is the freezing of movement,

Because painting is the representation (or interpretation or appropriation or disputation or presentation) of objects,

Because painting is a springboard for the imagination,

Because painting is spiritual illustration,

Because painting is justification,

Because painting serves an end,

Because to paint is to give aesthetic value to flowers, women, eroticism, thedaily environment, art, dadaism, psychoanalysis and the war in Vietnam,

We are not painters.

Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, on 3 January 1967