Quotes from Tristan Tzara

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Thought is made in the mouth.

DADA DADA DADA;—the roar of contorted pains, the interweaving of contraries and all contradictions, freaks and irrelevancies: LIFE.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918

Always destroy what is in you.

Thought is made in the mouth.

The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.

Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.

Morality is the infusion of chocolate into the veins of all men

Art needs an operation

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Les cloches sonnent sans raison et nous aussi

Una obra de arte jamás es bella, por decreto, objetivamente, para todos.

Nothing is more pleasant than to baffle people. The

Let us try for once not to be right

For me taking part in the decay of present-day man is an entertaining task and the only one that interests me.