1.
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
2.
I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
Jean Tinguely
3.
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
4.
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
5.
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
Jean Tinguely
