flooded with the wonderfully irrational (16 October 2016)

Hannah Höch, Modenschau (Fashion Show), 1925-35

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

- Günter Grass

Alexander Rodchenko, photomontage from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s book of poetry, To Sergei Uesenin, 1926

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that’s hard for a puritan to understand.

- Günter Grass

Eli Lotar, photomontage of Le Theatre Alfred Jarry et l’Hostilite Publique 1930. 

I’m always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

- Günter Grass

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

- Günter Grass

Herbert Bayer, Lonely Metropolitan, 1932