Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe.… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Each one of these bodies (art-works Arp made) certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
“La mariposa disecada se convierte en una mamariposa disesecada la mamariposa disesecada se convierte en una granmamariposa grandisesecada” — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without using oil… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
