Top 18 Tanguy Quotes
#1. Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy and especially Brauner (also a Romanian), who never respected the laws that Breton imposed in his manifests.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#2. I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.
Peggy Guggenheim
#3. Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to organize the space of the canvas according to the combined laws of dreams and pictorial aesthetics.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#4. The essence of coexistence is quite simple: live and respect how others live.
Eraldo Banovac
#5. There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work among the peasants during the co-operative movement and for a very long period after.
Mao Zedong
#6. Ari had discovered a contraband Barbie bangle in her weekend case and had gone on an hour's rant that contained words like 'body fascism' and 'third-wave feminism', then made Ellie write out fifty times, 'Barbie is a toxic plastic tool of a patriarchal culture.
Sarra Manning
#7. People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.
Eduardo Saverin
#8. Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
Yves Tanguy
#9. We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
Mary McDonnell
#10. The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Yves Tanguy
#11. There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.
Mark Twain
#12. No matter how dark the world can be, there is always a glimmer of hope
Laura Shone
#13. God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
Reggie White
#15. Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
Yves Tanguy
#16. I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
Yves Tanguy
#18. Content Isn't King, It's the Kingdom.
Lee Odden
