Tristan Tzara Quotes

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

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.

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.

Always destroy what is in you.

The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.

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

Thought is made in the mouth.

Art needs an operation