Artist Quotes by Kurt Schwitters

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

— Kurt Schwitters

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

— Kurt Schwitters

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

— Kurt Schwitters

The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.

— Kurt Schwitters

Invest your money in Dada! Dada is the only savings bank that pays interest in the hereafter!

— Kurt Schwitters

When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition…

— Kurt Schwitters

My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club

— Kurt Schwitters

I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve…

— Kurt Schwitters

“Eternity is the best policy.”

— Kurt Schwitters

New things had to be made out of fragments.

— Kurt Schwitters

Everything an artist spits is art.

— Kurt Schwitters

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

— Kurt Schwitters

When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition…

— Kurt Schwitters

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means…

— Kurt Schwitters

Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my new work…

— Kurt Schwitters