Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Tinguely

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Last updated on November 18, 2024.

Jean Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor best known for his kinetic art sculptural machines that extended the Dada tradition into the later part of the 20th century. Tinguely's art satirized automation and the technological overproduction of material goods.

Swiss - Sculptor | May 22, 1925 - August 30, 1991

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To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

Jean Tinguely

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

Jean Tinguely

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

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

Jean Tinguely

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

If I had to, I would ask first of all: why do things move in your work? It's the most simple, and also the most complicated, question. And I answer: things move because if they didn't move, they might move?.

Jean Tinguely

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Tinguely

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