Jean Tinguely (1925-1991)

“Everything moves continuously. Immobility does not exist. Don’t be dominated by out-of-date concepts of time. Get rid of hours, seconds and minutes. Stop resisting change. LIVE IN TIME – BE STATIC, BE STATIC WITH MOVEMENT. For Statics, for a present taking place in the Present. Resist anxious spells of weakness to halt moving things, to petrify moments and to kill what is alive. Stop continuously setting up ‘values’ which cannot but break down. Be free, live! Stop ‘painting’ time. Stop building cathedrals and pyramids which crumble like puff pastry. Breathe deeply, live in the present: live in time and according to time. For a wonderful and absolute reality!” (J. Tinguely quoted in H. E. Violand-Hobi, Jean Tinguely: Life and Work, New York, 1995, p. 33)