Kurt Schwitters Quotes
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The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
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My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
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Eternity last longest.
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Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu,pögiff,Kwii Ee.
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I cannot make a living out of art and I now occupy myself with a variety of things. Of course, I continue to paint and to nail, but in particular I write grotesques and art reviews for newspapers, I organize evenings a.o. with Theo van Doesburg and draw commercial art for newspapers.
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Since the loss of the Merzbau his former studio in Hannover, which was a big sculpture (5 x 4 x 4,5 meters) I did a lot of small sculptures..
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So, Huelsenbeck has put our feud in print - HA HASo he sneers at my bourgeois home - my childwho cries, who has to be changed and fedSo he laughs at my solid wife - that she's no Anna Bloom...
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Rinnzekete bee bee nnz krr müü?ziiuu ennze, ziiuu rinnzkrrmüü,rakete bee bee,
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So I spit back at you, HuelsenbeckBut where you spit venom, I spit artI laugh at you - HA HA -I laugh at you
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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 as they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.
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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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It is not the word that is the original material of poetry, rather the letter.
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In: 'Consistent Poetry Art', Schwitters' contribution to 'Magazine G', No. 3, 1924, ed. Hans Richter.
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Rrummpff tillff toooo?
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Consistent poetry is made of letters. Letters have no idea. Letters as such have no sound, they offer only tonal possibilities, to be valuated by the performer. The consistent poem weighs the value of both letters and groups.
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A museum that really wants to promote modern art might give the artist a guaranty, on certain conditions, so that he can get on with his life and his creations. Or do you believe that the museum is more interested in the artist's death, in order to see the price of his paintings go up?
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Oooooooooooooooooooooooo,
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We, the founders of Dada-movement try to give time its own reflection in the mirror.
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Well, art is not communist - not bourgeois eitherIt's no club and has no party lineNot wild nights make an artist - not drugs or manifestosIt's art - HA HA - that's no secretThe one who makes art - he's the artist..
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I have two principle aims, two life works. The second is my sonata Schwitters' 'UrSonata' - a long sound poem of 35 minutes
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Kurt Schwitters is the inventor of Merz and I, and aside of himself, he recognizes no one as a Merz artist or an I artist with highest regards.
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Merz stands for the freedom of all fetters.. .Merz also means tolerance towards any artistically motivated limitation. Every artist must be allowed to mould a picture out of nothing but blotting paper, for example, provided he is capable of moulding a picture.