Quotes by Kurt Schwitters - Page 1

Everything an artist spits is art.
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Art
Artist
Spit
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New things had to be made out of fragments.
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Fragments
Made
New Things
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A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.
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Games
Serious
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This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.
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Criticism
Known
Perspective
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The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.
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Essentials
Form
Mediums
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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
Nail
Pictures
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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
Connected
Self
Self Sufficient
Picture
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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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Interest
Pay
Saving
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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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Clubs
Nails
Names
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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.
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Art
Expression
Intuition
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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.
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Color
Play
Taken
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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
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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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Art
Mean
Spiritual
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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.
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Buttons
Junk
Together
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