Paul Feyerabend Quotes

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

Dada is a state of mind.

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms - to 'decompose' them much along the lines the cubists had done. But I wanted to go further - much further - in fact, in quite another direction altogether.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.

I cannot figure out just what Dadaism is beyond an insane jumble of the four winds, the six senses, and plum pudding. But if the Baroness is to be a keystone for it, — then I think I can possibly know when it is coming and avoid it.

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

All art is based on non-conformity.

I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "f off". But after a while you can get away with things.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

I had been thinking about rubber all along. Like as the novel's element, or base material. A lot of artists in the late '60s and early '70s worked with rubber and other forms that seemed like they connoted industrial detritus. Robert Morris, Eva Hesse.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.