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

We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant produces its fruit, not depict.….

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and ….

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being..

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure..

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness..

the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bel….

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it..

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

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost..

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication w….

I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wi….

While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals,….

Wij wezen allles wat kopie of beschrijving was af en lieten het elementaire en het spontane in volle vrijheid reageren. Omdat de plaatsing van de vla….

Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman voi….

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms..

As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, an….

Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it..

Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands of years of struggle with the goo….

In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without using oil colors ….

Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicu….