Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes

I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

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.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

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

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.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.

All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

Art should not have to be a certain way.

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.