Home › Authors › Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Sophie Taeuber-Arp Quotes
1889–1943 Switzerland
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (19 January 1889 – 13 January 1943) was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect and dancer. She is considered one of the most important artists of concrete art and geometric abstraction of the 20th century.
Switzerland Architects Dancers Painters Random Sophie Taeuber-Arp quote
5 quotes
..the wish to produce beautiful things — when that wish is true and profound — falls together with [man's] striving for perfection.
In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in perfect equilibrium...
I very much enjoyed working on the drawing, so much so that I made a whole series of small watercolors that I can use at any time for application on embroidered purses, pillows, rugs and wall hangings.
Elementary Forms in a Vertical-Horizontal Composition
Composition in Dense, Polychrome, Quadrangular Spots