"It was Sophie who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. …"

"We [Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber ] painted embroidered and made collages. All these works were drawn from the simplest…"

"A painting or sculpture not modeled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone.. .…"

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

"In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods."

"Concretion signifies the material process of condensation, hardening, coagulating, thickening, growing together. Conc…"

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

"art is fruit growing out of man like the fruit out of a plant like the child out of the mother. While the fruit of th…"

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

"I met Sophie Taeuber in Zurich in 1915. Even then she already knew how to give direct and palpable shape to her inner…"