"Ich ziehe vor Joseph Beuys seinen berühmten Hut. Es ist diesem genialen Lebenskünstler nicht nur geglückt, jeden deutschen Bürgermeister hereinzulegen, sondern auch seine ehrfürchtigen Kritiker, welche die Beuys'sche Narrenfreiheit gehorsam übernommen haben."
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Ephraim Kishon, Picassos süße Rache. Neue Streifzüge durch die moderne Kunst, München und Berlin 1995, S. 108
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