Jean Tinguely Quotes

There is no death! Death only exists for those who cannot accept evolution. Everything changes. Death is a transition from movement to movement. Death is static. Death is movement. Death is static. Death is movement.

Jean Tinguely

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• My ghosts are satisfied.

  

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• THE ONLY STABLE THING IS MOVEMENT

  

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• Currently, my machines are black and sometimes gentle, if not sexy or exuding a contained violence; I finally found the technical means for accomplishing this.

  

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  • Black
  • Violence
  • Sexy

• Let us contradict ourselves because we change. Let us be good and evil, true and false, beautiful and loathsome. We are all of these anyway. Let us admit it by accepting movement. Let us be static! Be static!

  

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  • Good
  • True
  • Beautiful

• The relationship of art and play: to play is art - consequently I play. I play enraged.

  

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  • Art
  • Relationship

• I wanted something ephemeral, that would pass like a falling star and, most importantly, that would be impossible for museums to reabsorb. I didn't want it to be 'museumised'. The work had to pass by, make people dream and talk, and that would be all, the next day nothing would be left, everything would go back to the garbage bins.

  

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  • People
  • Work
  • Dream

• To attempt to hold fast an instant id doubtful.

  

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• Only in movement do we find the true essence of things. Today we can no longer believe in permanent laws, defined religions, durable architecture or eternal kingdoms. Immutability does not exist. All is movement. All is static.

  

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  • Believe
  • True
  • Today

• To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

  

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  • Art

• During my nightmarish time in a coma, 11 days long, you kept appearing in my dreams, wild, you and Slava, like gypsies & always too late. You were a two-man orchestra & we were always looking for you and waiting for you.

  

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  • Time
  • Long
  • Waiting

• Static, static, static! Be static! Be static! Movement is static! Movement is static! Movement is static because it is the only immutable thing - the only certainty, the only unchangeable. The only certainty is that movement is static.

  

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• They'll all pee blue for one week to ten days, for about the duration of the show. The first opening I've enjoyed!

  

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  • Blue

• Time is movement and cannot be checked. Time passes us and rushes on, and we remind behind, old and crumbled. But we are juvenated again and again by static and continuous movement. Let us be transformed! Let us be static! Let us be against stagnation and for static!

  

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  • Time

• One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

  

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  • School
  • Art

• We are still very much annoyed by out-of-date notions of time. Please, would you throw away your watches! At least toss aside the minutes and hours. Obviously we all realize that we are not everlasting. Our fear of death has inspired the creation of beautiful works of art. And this was a fine thing, too. However, our only eternal possession will be change.

  

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  • Time
  • Art
  • Death

• There is no death! Death only exists for those who cannot accept evolution. Everything changes. Death is a transition from movement to movement. Death is static. Death is movement. Death is static. Death is movement.

  

  Jean Tinguely
  • Death