Dada
Dada is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
13 thinkers244 quotesTop field: Art
"happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. .. rendering the God-spirit in the mountains."
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🇺🇸Marsden Hartley
Art
Dada
1877–1943
"happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. .. rendering the God-spirit in the mountains."
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🇩🇪Kurt Schwitters
Art
Dada
1887–1948
"Kurt Schwitters is the inventor of Merz and I, and aside of himself, he recognizes no one as a Merz artist or an I artist with highest regards."
30 quotes
Jean Arp
Art
Dada
1886–1966
"Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order."
41 quotes
🇨🇭Jean Tinguely
Art
Dada
1925–1991
"There is no death! Death only exists for those who cannot accept evolution. Everything changes. Death is a transition from movement to movement. Death is static. Death is movement. Death is static. Death is movement."
16 quotes
🇩🇪Hugo Ball
Literature
Dada
1886–1927
"That is the meaning of the coming of Christ.. ..that the word becomes flesh and man is saved from abstraction."
23 quotes
🇺🇸Man Ray
Art
Dada
1890–1976
"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask "how", while others of a more curious nature will ask "why". Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."
16 quotes
🇩🇪Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Literature
Dada
1874–1927
"Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life."
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🇺🇸George Grosz
Art
Dada
1893–1959
"Árt is dead. Long live Tatlin's new machine art."
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🇫🇷Tristan Tzara
Literature
Dada
1896–1963
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🇩🇪Richard Huelsenbeck
Literature
Dada
1892–1974
"Meta-Dadaist... fulfilled certain ideas of ours, notably the idea of motion."
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🇨🇭Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Entertainment
Dada
1889–1943
"..the wish to produce beautiful things — when that wish is true and profound — falls together with striving for perfection."
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🇺🇸Marcel Duchamp
Art
Dada
1887–1968
"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position."
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🇫🇷Paul Éluard
Literature
Dada
1895–1952
"His fables so brutally imposed, sweated by heart. Their morality is a prison which I don't want to penetrate anymore."
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Notable Quotes
"I cannot make a living out of art and I now occupy myself with a variety of things. Of course, I continue to paint and to nail, but in particular I write grotesques and art reviews for newspapers, I organize evenings and draw commercial art for newspapers."
— Kurt Schwitters, b. 1887View →
"By the time I was 16, the everlasting copying of stuffed birds and withered flowers at the Strasbourg School of Applied Art not only poisoned drawing for me but destroyed my taste for all artistic activity. I took refuge in poetry."
— Jean Arp, b. 1886View →
"All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess."
— Marcel Duchamp, b. 1887View →
"Consistent poetry is made of letters. Letters have no idea. Letters as such have no sound, they offer only tonal possibilities, to be valuated by the performer. The consistent poem weighs the value of both letters and groups."
— Kurt Schwitters, b. 1887View →
"It is not the word that is the original material of poetry, rather the letter."
— Kurt Schwitters, b. 1887View →