I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials…

- Kurt Schwitters

Inspiration,' the false artist says,'it just comes to me.' And it shows.His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room -- morning, evening, m…

- 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 boun…

- Kurt Schwitters

Everything an artist spits is art.

- Kurt Schwitters

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

- Kurt Schwitters

When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color …

- Kurt Schwitters

New things had to be made out of fragments.

- Kurt Schwitters

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

- Kurt Schwitters

Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my new wo…

- Kurt Schwitters