“THE ONLY STABLE THING IS MOVEMENT”

— Jean Tinguely

Quote from Tinguely's letter to Peter Selz (1956); quoted in: Osbel Suárez et al. (2007) Lo[s] cinético[s]. p. 256.
Quotes, 1950's

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Swiss painter and sculptor 1925–1991

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