"Ever since my childhood, I was haunted 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."
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22 Quotes by Hans Arp
Hans Arp has 22 quotes on this site.
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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines…
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The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's…
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We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted…
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We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to…
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The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but…
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DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.
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Wij wezen allles wat kopie of beschrijving was af en lieten het elementaire en het spontane in volle vrijheid reageren.…
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A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf…
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Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.
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I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is…
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Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads…
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
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