Jean Tinguely Professions : Painter Born : May 22, 1925 Died : August 30, 1991 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by 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 communication reality art 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 simple answers moving I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms. Jean Tinguely great-men wonderful art 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 authority common art One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes. Jean Tinguely fine art school Similar Authors Barry McGee painter Brion Gysin painter Bridget Riley painter Boris Vallejo painter Allan Kaprow painter Augustus John painter All Authors
