Art Quote by Hans Arp

“I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise,…

— Lepota L. Cosmo

Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or…

— Chloe Sevigny

And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no…

— William Eggleston

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do…

— Jeff Koons

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

— Ken Adam

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

— Richard Phillips

Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was that their…

— Genesis P-Orridge

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Growing up in the '70s and '80s when my dad had an art gallery, one of the things that frustrated me was the world…

— Jason Blum

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

— Ma Jian

“Franz Schulze’s book “Fantastic Images” had a lot of impact on me. Mark Pascale turned me on to that book when I was twenty…

— Audrey Niffenegger

I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to…

— Stephane Hessel