Top 35 Tzara Quotes
#1. Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
Sergey Brin
#2. If there was one thing we shared, thanks to our upbringing in an ATI-aware household, it was the knowledge that the sudden smell of mysterious baked goods never meant anything good for anybody.
Seanan McGuire
#3. Nothing is more pleasant than to baffle people. The
Tristan Tzara
#5. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
Tristan Tzara
#6. 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.
Tristan Tzara
#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.
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#10. Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.
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#11. 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!
Tristan Tzara
#12. We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.
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#14. Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE
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#15. 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.
Tristan Tzara
#16. Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.
Michael Shurtleff
#17. Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult).
John Scalzi
#18. If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#20. No matter what either of us want, I'm never going to be that innocent boy you fell in love with." Shaking my head, I thumped my hands against my chest. "There's nothing here for you any longer, City.
Linda Kage
#21. when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. Coincidences are not accidents but signals from the universe which can guide us toward our true destiny.
Deepak Chopra
#23. Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.
Tristan Tzara
#25. Pop music is awesome, but I like to keep changing it up.
Chaz Bundick
#28. If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.
Matthew Lillard
#29. You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.
Tristan Tzara
#30. Morality is the infusion of chocolate into the veins of all men
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#31. 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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#32. 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.
Tristan Tzara
#33. 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.
Tristan Tzara
#34. Langston took the latest red Moleskine notebook that Grandpa bought me and, together with Benny, mapped out a series of clues to find a companion just right for me.
Rachel Cohn
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