"Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air."
"For me, the Bild-Dichtung [image-poem] is the ideal form, because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing, the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements."
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Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon. Book by Monika Faber, 2005.
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