The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints... It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.