Hans Arp Quotes

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• Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise…
• The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.
• Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
• We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it…
• We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant…
• The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on…
• DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.
• Wij wezen allles wat kopie of beschrijving was af en lieten het elementaire en het spontane in volle vrijheid reageren. Omdat de plaatsing van de…
• A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it…
• Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.
• I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me…
• Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
• To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.
• All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.
• I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share…
• While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on…
• Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.
• The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.
• I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not…
• Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

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