"I have examined myself carefully. I could never bid chaos welcome, blow up bridges, and do away with ideas. I am not …"

"In these phonetic poems we the Dadaist artists totally renounce the language that journalism has abused and corrupted…"

"I have invented [c. 1915-1916] a new series of verses, verses without words, or sound poems, in which the balancing o…"

"We have now driven the plasticity of the word to the point where it can barely be surpassed.. .We have loaded the wor…"

"Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomo…"

"The war [World War 1.] is founded on a glaring mistake, men have been confused with machines."

"It is a mistake to believe in my presence.. .If I take a seat at a party, I can see, even from afar, that only a ghos…"

"Our cabaret 'Cabaret Voltaire' is a gesture.. .Every word that is spoken and sung here says at least this one thing: …"

"We were all there when Janco arrived with his masks, and everyone immediately put one on. Then something strange happ…"

"An International word. Just a word, and the word a movement. Very easy to understand. Quite terribly simple. To make …"