Magyar Ifjúság [Hungarian Youth], issue 36, 30 August 1974
Since I was the main protagonist of the article, I need to add that the termination of my lease on 27 August 1973 was carried out by the public administration authority on the grounds that in 1968 I did not have a permit of use for the building in addition to the signed lease agreement. The termination of the lease was carried out with my consent since I realised that the implementation of a large-scale programme with a social content would be impossible without state support. I always took responsibility for my own artistic projects and I am still working with this same mentality; however, is it healthy to lock myself in my room, if I have ideas but only know them myself? I should paint panel pictures but I do not regard that middle-class genre topical. The society we are building must be more rational that ever before. This requires an art programme with a social content. State support is required for art research: a continuous and alive dialogue, the availability of a technological infrastructure and the exchange of research experience. I wish the failure of realising my ideas were not only an addition to my personal experiences and more than a mere epitath on the tombstone erected to this affair, which put an end to the well-known conflicts.
György Galántai
Budapest