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Hans Arp Quotes

It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp’s wife) who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium Picture Quote #1

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb Picture Quote #1

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing Picture Quote #1

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure Picture Quote #1

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head Picture Quote #1

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness Picture Quote #1

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp’s wife) who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium (Hans Arp Quotes) Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb (Hans Arp Quotes) To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing (Hans Arp Quotes) All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure (Hans Arp Quotes) Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head (Hans Arp Quotes) Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it (Hans Arp Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost (Hans Arp Quotes) 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 (Hans Arp Quotes) The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness (Hans Arp Quotes) Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation (Hans Arp Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Hans Arp Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)