Jean Tinguely famous quotes

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Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.
-- Jean Tinguely

#Art #Communication #Reality
If I had to, I would ask first of all: why do things move in your work? Itâ€™s the most simple, and also the most complicated, question. And I answer: things move because if they didnâ€™t move, they might moveâ€‰â€¦
-- Jean Tinguely

#Moving #Simple #Answers
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.
-- Jean Tinguely

#Art #Common #Authority
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
-- Jean Tinguely

#Art #School #Fine
I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
-- Jean Tinguely

#Art #Wonderful #Great Men

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
Expression and communication in the peakâ€“experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

Jean Tinguely famous quotes

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