Kurt Schwitters 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.

Inspiration,' the false artist says,'it just comes to me.' And it shows.His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, midnight, noon. For myself, I have to search for it. The whole world is your palate, but only if you reach, take hold of what you need and pocket it.

New things had to be made out of fragments.

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

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

Invest your money in Dada! Dada is the only savings bank that pays interest in the hereafter!

Everything an artist spits is art.

When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.