Dada Quotes

“I have invented a new genre of poems, sound poems... poems without words.”

“Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.”

“The word and the image are one.”

“What we are celebrating is both buffoonery and a requiem mass.”

“The Dadaist fights against the agony and the death throes of this age.”

“We were all there. The death of the times was our business. It is a secret law of nature that the soul cries out in the last agony of a dying age.”

“Dada was an explosion of disgust.”

“Art is a pharmaceutical product for idiots.”

“Knowledge is an old error.”

“Aesthetics is a joke.”

“I am an idiot and I am a farce.”

“Cubism is a cathedral of shit.”

“We must return to the innermost alchemy of the word.”

“Every word that is spoken and sung here says at least one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.”

“I am neither for nor against, and I don't explain because I hate common sense.”

“Dada smells of nothing, it is nothing, nothing, nothing.”

“Down with art! Down with bourgeois intellectualism!”