Tanguy Quotes & Sayings

Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to organize the space of the canvas according to the combined laws of dreams and pictorial aesthetics. — Dumitru Tepeneag

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand. — Yves Tanguy

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. — Yves Tanguy

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. — Yves Tanguy

Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy and especially Brauner (also a Romanian), who never respected the laws that Breton imposed in his manifests. — Dumitru Tepeneag

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work. — Yves Tanguy

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art. — Peggy Guggenheim