Jean Tinguely

“The dream is everything. It is the poetic, the unreal, the useless, the gratuitous, the absurd, the metaphysical element in man.”

“To me, art is a rebellion, an opposition.”

“Life is movement. The moment you are still, you are dead.”

“Everything moves, nothing stands still.”

“I resist everything that is fixed.”

“For me, the machine is an instrument that allows me to be poetic.”

“Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality.”

“The only stable thing is movement.”

“I want to make a machine that is useless, totally useless.”

“My machines are a protest against the mechanization of our lives.”

“I play. I play with machines. I play with my life.”