Quote#Art
I cannot make a living out of art and I now occupy myself with a…
Quote byKurt Schwitters · 1887–1948
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: In a letter to w:Galka Scheyer, January 1926; as quoted in I is Style, ed. Siegfried Gohr & Gunda Luyken, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam 2000, p. 34..
English (original)
I cannot make a living out of art and I now occupy myself with a variety of things. Of course, I continue to paint and to nail, but in particular I write grotesques and art reviews for newspapers, I organize evenings [a.o. with Theo van Doesburg ] and draw commercial art for newspapers.
— Kurt Schwitters
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