"We do not wish to imitate nature, we……" — Hans Arp
"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 produces its fruit, not depict. We want to produce directly, not indirectly. Since there is not a trace of abstraction in this art we call it concrete art."
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Hans Arp
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22 Quotes by Hans Arp
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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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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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To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.
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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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