Hans Arp Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

  Hans Arp

  Mother, Art, Children

• 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.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Distance, Gun

  "The autobiographical pact: otherness and redemption in four French avant-garde artists". Book by Cosana Maria Eram, p. 20, 2010.

• Wij wezen allles wat kopie of beschrijving was af en lieten het elementaire en het spontane in volle vrijheid reageren. Omdat de plaatsing van de vlakken en de kleuren en de verhoudingen van deze vlakken louter op toeval schenen te berusten, verklaarde ik dat deze werken, zoals in de natuur, gerangschikt waren "volgens de wetten van het toeval", toeval dat voor mij alleen maar een beperkt onderdeel vormde van een onpeilbare reden van bestaan, van een orde die in zijn totaliteit ontoegankelijk was.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Chance, Vans

• I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Nature, Opinion

• Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Men, Vanity

  "Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs". Book by Hans Arp, p. 315, 1966.

• We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it buckled and was ruined... that is why we decided to tear prewrinkled paper, so that in the finished work of art imperfection would be an integral part, as if at birth death were built in.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Cutting, Perfection

• The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.

  Hans Arp

  Dream, Art, Writing

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". Book by Hans Arp, p. 327, 1958.

• 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.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Wish, Want

• Each one of these bodies (art-works Arp made) certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin to look for its meaning, that I give it a name.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Names, Giving

• The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Important, Thrones

• I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.

  Hans Arp

  Wise, Art, Attitude

• Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Distance, Zurich

• A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Real, Sculpture

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