Kurt Schwitters Quotes

• 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.

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  Together, Buttons, Junk

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

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  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.

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  Spiritual, Art, Mean

  "Manifesto Proletkult" by Theo van Doesburg, 1923.

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• Todo lo que un artista escupe es arte.

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  Art, Artist, Spit

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

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  Artist, Names, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cuando ajusto materiales de distintos tipos entre sí, he dado un paso más allá de la mera pintura al óleo, pues además de enfrentar color contra color, línea contra línea, forma contra forma, etc., enfrento material contra material, por ejemplo, madera contra arpillera.

  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.

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  Morning, Wall, Inspiration

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• El medio es tan poco importante como yo mismo. Lo esencial es sólo la formación.

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  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.

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  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!

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  Saving, Pay, Interest

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

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  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

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  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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