Schwitters Art Quotes & Sayings

Which does a man prefer? Bacon and eggs, or worship? Sometimes one, sometimes the other, depending how hungry he is. — Margaret Atwood

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is. — Kurt Schwitters

With Outlook bikers in Australia, if you've got a little emblazoned thing that's got 'one percent' on it, that means you're one percent of the population and a dangerous criminal. If it's '99,' it means you're kind of a nice recreational biker. If it's 'zero percenter,' it just shows you're a total deadbeat. — James Frecheville

To make them feel good about themselves when they were made to feel good about seeing God is like taking someone to the Alps and locking them in a room full of mirrors. — John Piper

With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent. — Janet Edwards

Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely. — Gautama Buddha

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. — Kurt Schwitters

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle. — Kurt Schwitters

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life. — Jason Reitman

This isn't me. This isn't the Justice Drake that people know and loathe. Yet, I don't want to be any other way with Ally. I like who I am when she's around. For once, I can just ... breathe. I can just be. — S.L. Jennings

The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in. And then people said if you do that you'll hit glass ceilings all the time, because you are not Ghanian or Nigerian and that's the way to progress though a multinational organization like that. In any event, they said do five years' legal experience and come back. And after five years I decided to stay where I was. So I am really an accidental lawyer. — John Gimlette

Everything an artist spits is art. — Kurt Schwitters

Water your dreams with the essence of love so it may nurture and grow beyond your vision and desires. — Truth Devour

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name? — Robert Harris

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside. — Kurt Schwitters

The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only come if there's a change in our societies and our economics and in our politics. I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer. Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy, inhabitable by all species — David Attenborough

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can. — Kurt Schwitters

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. — Kurt Schwitters

For now I had five children by him: the only work perhaps that fools are good for. — Daniel Defoe