Each one of these bodies (art-works Arp made) certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin ….

It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, s….

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head..

We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it buckled and….

Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has col….

The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presenc….

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..

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

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages..

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow..

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing..

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

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….

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,….

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..

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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