Hans Arp (1886–1966) Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist
Notes From a Dada Diary, published in 1932; as quoted by Anna Moszynska, in Abstract Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990, p. 113
1930s
“art is fruit growing out of man like the fruit out of a plant like the child out of the mother. While the fruit of the plant grows independent forms and never resembles a balloon or a president in a cutaway suit the artistic fruit of man shows for the most part a ridiculous resemblance to the appearance of other things. Reason tells man to stand above nature and to be the measure of all things. thus man thinks he is able to live and to create against the laws of nature and he creates abortions. through reason man became a tragic and ugly figure. i dare say he would create even his children in the form of vases with umbilical cords if he could do so. reason has cut man off from nature.”
— Hans Arp
Arp wrote this in lowercase letters
Notes From a Dada Diary; published, 1932 in 'Transition magazine'; as quoted (in lowercase letters), “Soby, James Thrall. Arp: The Museum of Modern Art. Doubleday, New York, 1958, Print. p. 17
1930s
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "art is fruit growing out of man like the fruit out of a plant like the child out of the mother. While the fruit of the …" by Hans Arp?
Hans Arp42
Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist 1886–1966Related quotes
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 6 : Higher Life
Life and Destiny (1913)
“Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter to Cassandra (1799-06-11) on decorating her hat [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
The Animal Kingdom https://books.google.it/books?id=gKBgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA0, trans. H. McMurtrie, London: Orr and Smith, 1834, p. 37.
“The most fruitful research grows out of practical problems.”
Ralph Brazelton Peck (1912–2008) American civil engineer
as taken by Professor Ralph Peck's Legacy Website http://peck.geoengineer.org/words.html#
“The fruits of the free spirit of man do not grow in the garden of tyranny”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Empire Rally of Youth at the Royal Albert Hall (18 May 1937), quoted in Service of Our Lives (1937), pp. 165-166.
1937
Context: The fruits of the free spirit of man do not grow in the garden of tyranny... As long as we have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, men will turn their faces towards us and draw their breath more freely. The association of the peoples of the Empire is rooted, and their fellowship is rooted, in this doctrine of the essential dignity of the individual human soul. That is the English secret.
“God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
1950s, The Chance for Peace (1953)
Context: These proposals spring, without ulterior motive or political passion, from our calm conviction that the hunger for peace is in the hearts of all people -- those of Russia and of China no less than of our own country. They conform to our firm faith that God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
