"The essence of a sculpture must enter on……" — Hans Arp

"The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow."

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22 Quotes by Hans Arp

Hans Arp has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines…
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's…
We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted…
We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to…
The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but…
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.…
A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf…
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…
Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads…
To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
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