Hans Bellmer quotes

Hans Bellmer quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it”
-- Hans Bellmer

Source : Hans Bellmer, Stephen S. Prokopoff, Krannert Art Museum (1991). “Hans Bellmer, photographs: 23 February to 31 March 1991”

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“Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavor to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To an extent they represented an attempt to reject the horrors of adult life as it was in favor of a return to the wonder of childhood, but the eroticism was all-important, they became an erotic liberation for me.”
-- Hans Bellmer

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“Perhaps there was more authentic danger in the photography that was banned - why shouldn't one be able to produce it? But this new enthusiasm finally caused us some trouble, and it suffices to say, if I remember correctly, that it was in this way that my thoughts turned to the young maidens.”
-- Hans Bellmer

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“I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.”
“Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.”
“We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.”
“The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.”
“I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.”
“No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction”
“There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.”
“For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.”
“Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.20, Image Continuum Press
“I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.”

Source : "Land of Lost Souls" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 24, 2008.

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