Quote by 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.

— Hans Arp

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

— Hans Arp

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Hans Arp

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

— Hans Arp

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Hans Arp