"The Dada movement was an anti-movement which corresponded to a need born of the first World War. Although neither lit…"

"I did exhibitions with the Surrealists [in Paris, circa 1929] because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their…"

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

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

"the streams buck like rams in a tent whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed shadows of the shepherd…"

"I hereby declare that on February 8th, 1916, Tristan Tzara discovered the word DADA. I was present with my twelve chi…"

"Dadaism has launched an attack on the fine arts. It has declared art to be a magic opening of the bowels, administere…"

"Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War, we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts. While guns rumbled in the…"

"Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order."

"Dada is an utterly a-religious attitude, like that of the scientist with his eye stuck on his microscope."