Quotes by Hans Arp

Hans Arp

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.

Art

Real

Sculpture

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

Men

Nature

Should

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

Age

Artist

Working Together

As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.

Black

Drawing

White

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

Arms

Beautiful

Night

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

Childhood

Cutting

Perfection

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

Born

Process

Thinking

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.

Art

Attitude

Wise

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially… black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

Black And White

Communication

Writing

In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without using oil colors to avoid any reference with usual painting). These were probably the first manifestations of their kind, pictures that were their own reality, without meaning or cerebral intention. We rejected everything in the nature of a copy or a description, in order to give free flow to what was elemental and spontaneous.

Color

Order

Reality

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Air

Animal

Anxiety

Arms

Art

Artist

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Beautiful

Black

Black And White

Born

Childhood

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Communication

Cutting

Drawing

Ego

Essence

Fall

Flower

Important

Light

Men

Method

Nature

Night

Noise

Order

Perfection

Process

Real

Reality

Sculpture

Should

Spiritual

Spring

Struggle

Symbols

Technology

Thinking

Thrones

Touching

Used

Want

White

Wise

Wish

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Quotes by Hans Arp

Hans Arp

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.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

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.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially… black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

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