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Top 20 Hans Arp Quotes (2025 Update)

Hans Arp Quote: “While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.”

1. “While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.”

Hans Arp Quote: “The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.”

2. “The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.”

Hans Arp Quote: “Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.”

3. “Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.”

Hans Arp Quote: “Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.”

4. “Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.”

Hans Arp Quote: “The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.”

5. “The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.”

Hans Arp Quote: “We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant produces its fruit, not depict. We want to produce directly, not indirectly. Since there is not a trace of abstraction in this art we call it concrete art.”

6. “We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant produces its fruit, not depict. We want to produce directly, not indirectly. Since there is not a trace of abstraction in this art we call it concrete art.”

Hans Arp Quote: “I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.”

7. “I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.”

Hans Arp Quote: “To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.”

8. “To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.”

Hans Arp Quote: “The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.”

9. “The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.”

Hans Arp Quote: “DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.”

10. “DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.”

Hans Arp Quote: “Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man’s vanity to be loathsome.”

11. “Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man’s vanity to be loathsome.”

Hans Arp Quote: “Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.”

12. “Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.”

Hans Arp Quote: “The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.”

13. “The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.”

Hans Arp Quote: “Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.”

14. “Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.”

Hans Arp Quote: “Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.”

15. “Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.”

Hans Arp Quote: “All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.”

16. “All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.”

Hans Arp Quote: “Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.”

17. “Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.”

Hans Arp Quote: “Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.”

18. “Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.”

Hans Arp Quote: “In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.”

19. “In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.”

Hans Arp Quote: “In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.”

20. “In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.”

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