From the essay by Heini Widmer: "It was never Emma Kunz's intention to make art, to be an artist. Nor did she, according to reliable witnesses, ever use this word. She sensed that, that which we call art could be of no concern to her. With her drawings she sought neither to depict an isolated thing of beauty in itself, nor a reflection of the physical world. Her creative efforts were undertaken entirely from the standpoint of a search for understanding, insight. Within this frame of reference, she viewed Man, and above all herself, as an integral part of the action-field between the eternal and the terrestrial, between good and evil as moral religious categories, and between the four elements of antiquity as reference points of natural science."
