"While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang,……" — 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 on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell."
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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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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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