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Quotes by Tristan Tzara

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Nothing is more pleasant than to baffle people. The.
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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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Art needs an operation.
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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.
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You’ll never know why you exist, but you’ll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.
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Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.
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You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.
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Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
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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!
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Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom.
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