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> [Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/ever-since-my-childhood-i-was-haunted-by-the-search-for-perfection-an/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

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## More by Hans Arp

> [“La mariposa disecada se convierte en una mamariposa disesecada la mamariposa disesecada se convierte en una granmamariposa grandisesecada”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/la-mariposa-disecada-se-convierte-en-una-mamariposa-disesecada-la/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/ever-since-my-childhood-i-was-haunted-by-the-search-for-perfection-an/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/in-recent-times-surrealist-painters-have-used-descriptive/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/artists-should-work-together-like-the-artists-of-the-middle-ages/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/zurich-in-1915-while-the-thunder-of-the-batteries-rumbled-in-the/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/i-like-nature-but-not-its-substitutes-mondrian-opposed-art-to-nature/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/we-attempted-perfection-we-wanted-an-object-to-be-without-flaw-so-we/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/the-vertical-and-the-horizontal-are-the-extreme-signs-available-to/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/dada-is-beautiful-like-the-night-who-cradles-the-young-day-in-her-arms/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/while-guns-rumbled-in-the-distance-we-sang-painted-made-collages-and/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without using oil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/in-1915-sophie-tauber-and-i-carried-out-our-first-works-in-the/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/since-the-time-of-the-cavemen-man-has-glorified-himself-has-made/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/the-man-who-speaks-and-writes-about-art-should-refrain-from-censuring/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [Each one of these bodies (art-works Arp made) certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/each-one-of-these-bodies-art-works-arp-made-certainly-signifies/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

> [Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-arp/already-in-1915-sophie-tauber-divides-the-surface-of-her-aquarelle/)

[Hans Arp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-arp/)

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