Kurt Schwitters Quotes

Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made his artwork with.

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

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

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available to poetry's palette. For a long time, I've wanted to invite in more strangeness, more freedom of imagination. Yet music, seeing, and meaning are also cohering disciplines. They can be stretched, and that is part of poetry's helium pleasure. But not to the point of breaking.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.