20 Quotes by Hans Arp

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

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.

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

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

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

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

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.

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