Tinguely Quotes & Sayings

Eucharisteo makes the knees the vantage point of a life. — Ann Voskamp

The perennial outsider with his nose to the window, looking in on a world from which he felt excluded. — Douglas Kennedy

My desire is to walk with God every day. — Janine Turner

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes. — Jean Tinguely

It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with a great deal more self-interest than the public image would suggest. — Robert Lacey

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms. — Jean Tinguely

Tinguely wasn't the first artist to work with machines. But others were more interested in precision, in what machines are meant to do. What made him different was the random element. He introduced the mechanical accident. He was always interested in the immaterial, in sound, smoke, speed, light, shadows. — Pontus Hulten

Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality! — Betsy Beers

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality ... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection ... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total. — Jean Tinguely

The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life. — Yves Klein

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow. — George MacDonald

It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty ... when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I'd do every nut and rivet, and I'd do every scale on the dragon's back. It was just the way I was built. — Graeme Base

The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice. — Adyashanti

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete. — Jean Tinguely

Life is fun if you just find out how. — Ramon Bautista

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic. — Evelyn Waugh