Jean Arp Quotes

Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.

I cannot figure out just what Dadaism is beyond an insane jumble of the four winds, the six senses, and plum pudding. But if the Baroness is to be a keystone for it, — then I think I can possibly know when it is coming and avoid it.

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.

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

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 good sausage Python. The philosophers are of less use to Dada than an old toothbrush, and it leaves them on the scrap heap for the great leaders of the world.

Dada is a state of mind.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

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.

I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in Dadaistic activities. It was clear, luminous, simple without being banal, precise without being narrow; it was a style adapted to the expression of thought as well as of emotion. I connected this style with the Dadaistic exercises themselves

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Being nuts is its own reward.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Life [had] replaced logic.

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

in nonsense is strength

If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about