“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… — Hans Arp Childhood Copy Share Image
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp Academic 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… — Hans Arp Art 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness. — Hans Arp Available Copy Share Image
DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms. — Hans Arp Arms 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 Age 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… — Hans Arp Cerebral 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 Art 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly… — Hans Arp Blue Copy Share Image
Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands… — Hans Arp Given Copy Share Image
As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface..… — Hans Arp Black Copy Share Image
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the… — Hans Arp Depth Copy Share Image
To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing. — Hans Arp Inspirational 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 Art Copy Share Image
I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain… — Hans Arp Black Copy Share Image
I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it.… — Hans Arp Birth 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the… — Hans Arp Beats Copy Share Image
