Kurt Schwitters

"Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it …"

"I cannot make a living out of art and I now occupy myself with a variety of things. Of course, I continue to paint and to nail, but in particular I write grotesques and art reviews for newspapers, I o…"

"Merz paintings are abstract works of art. The word 'Merz' essentially means the totality of all imaginable materials that can be used for artistic purposes and technically the principle that all of th…"

"The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.. .I take any material whatsoever if the picture demands it. When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have t…"

"Just as soon as the great and glorious Revolution broke out I gave notice and now live entirely for art. For a while, I tried to create new forms of art from the remains of the old culture. From this …"

"When I was born 20.6.87, I was influenced by Picasso to cry. When I could walk and speak I still stood under Picasso's influence and said to my mother: 'Tom' or 'Happening', meaning the entrances of t…"

"The custom official was desperate, he did not know whether they were pictures, wood ware or even arms . I got the impression he had an inner struggle with two options, either to have me arrested or to…"

"In his introduction to the recently published 'Dada Almanach' , Huelsenbeck writes: 'Dada is making a kind of propaganda against culture'. Thus Huelsendadaismus is politically oriented, against art an…"