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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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…"

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