1. “A perambulator wheel, wire netting, string and cotton wool are factors having equal rights with paint. The artist creates through choice, distribution and disassociation of the materials.”
2. “This is what is known as perspective and it is a swindle.”
3. “Eternity is the best policy.”
4. “Everything an artist spits is art.”
5. “Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.”
6. “New things had to be made out of fragments.”
7. “A game played with serious problems. That’s what art is.”
8. “The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.”
9. “My name is Kurt Schwitters… I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.”
10. “The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.”
