"So now the secret is out. And it turns out never to have been a secret at all. Everyone can be beautiful. There are no ugly human beings -- and maybe not even any "pretty" ones, who are pretty just because some anonymous medium tells us so. When we realize that there are just different human beings, instantaneously the potentiality for beauty in our lives is expanded to infinity..."
In his remarkable introduction to the catalog for Mixed Masters, a 1967 exhibition at The University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, Kurt eloquently displays the truth of what he terms the "cultural revolution" and, accordingly, reveals himself as the insightful and sensitive humanist he was.