Quotes by Tristan Tzara - Page 1

Art needs an operation
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Art
Needs
Operations
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Thought is made in the mouth.
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Made
Mouths
Thinking
Mouth
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Always destroy what is in you.
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Let us try for once not to be right.
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In principle, I am against principles.
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Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.
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Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom.
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The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.
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Depth
Summit
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Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.
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Art
Journalism
Understood
Product
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We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.
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Made
Made A Mistake
Mistake
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The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
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Guidance
Professors
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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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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
Cameras
Gentleman
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Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.
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Color
Opposites
Roaring
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I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.
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Principles
Want
Writing
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Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.
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Art
Interesting
People
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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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Art
Journalism
Literature
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I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918
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Art
Practice
Rivers
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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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Bags
Idiot
Pairs
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Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)
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Men
Eggs
Water
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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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Buddhist
Butterfly
Passion
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When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power is contained in his flame, and the sensitive paper absorbed by degrees the blackness cut out of some ordinary object. He had invented a fresh and tender flash of lightning.
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Art
Cutting
Flames
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