Kurt Schwitters Quotes

• New things had to be made out of fragments.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Fragments, Made, New Things

  Kurt Schwitters, Werner Schmalenbach, Kate Traumann Steinitz, California. University, Los Angeles. Art Galleries (1965). “Kurt Schwitters: retrospective : March-April 1965”

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• I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Together, Buttons, Junk

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• A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Games, Serious

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• Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Spiritual, Art, Mean

  "Manifesto Proletkult" by Theo van Doesburg, 1923.

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• Everything an artist spits is art.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Artist, Spit

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• My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Artist, Names, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Taken, Color, Play

  "Abstract Art". Book by Anna Moszynska, p. 68-69, 1990.

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• Inspiration,' the false artist says,'it just comes to me.' And it shows.His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Morning, Wall, Inspiration

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• The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Essentials, Form, Mediums

  Gwendolen Webster, Kurt Schwitters (1997). “Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study”

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• The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Self, Connected

  Kurt Schwitters, Werner Schmalenbach, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1965). “Kurt Schwitters: a retrospective exhibition”

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• Invest your money in Dada! Dada is the only savings bank that pays interest in the hereafter!

  Kurt Schwitters

  Saving, Pay, Interest

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• This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Perspective, Criticism, Known

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• My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club

  Kurt Schwitters

  Names, Nails, Clubs

  "Kurt Schwitters, I is Style". Book by Jean Arp, p. 151, January 15, 2000.

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• Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Expression, Intuition

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