Tristan Tzara Quotes

#1. Nothing is more pleasant than to baffle people. The

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#2. Let us try for once not to be right.

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

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#4. I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.

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#5. But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

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#6. 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

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#7. The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.

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

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#9. To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a bag. Shake gently, draw them out at random, and copy them conscientiously ... DADA est mort. DADA est idiot. Vive DADA!

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#10. We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.

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#11. In principle, I am against principles.

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#12. Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE

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#13. 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.

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#14. Thought is made in the mouth.

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#15. Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

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#16. Art needs an operation

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

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#18. Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom.

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

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#20. Morality is the infusion of chocolate into the veins of all men

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#21. Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)

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#22. 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.

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#23. 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.

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#24. Always destroy what is in you.

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