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Art Quotes by Hans Arp
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov