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"Dada was not a fashion, a style, or a doctrine."

"With Dada I.. ..have in common a certain mistrust toward power. We dont like authority, we dont like power, To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete. Its a political attitude which doesnt need to found a political party. Its not a matter of taking power; when you are against it, you cant take it. Were against all forms of force which aggregate and crystallize an authority that oppresses people. Obviously this is not a characteristic of my art alone-its much more general, a basic political attitude.."

"I did exhibitions with the Surrealists [in Paris, circa 1929] because their attitude revolted against art and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dadas."

"Dada hurts. Dada does not jest, for the reason that it was experienced by revolutionary men and not by philistines who demand that art be a decoration for the mendacity of their own emotions.. .I am firmly convinced that all art will become dadaistic in the course of time, because from Dada proceeds the perpetual urge for its renovation."

"[ Tinguely is a] Meta-Dadaist... [who had] fulfilled certain ideas of ours, notably the idea of motion."

"Dada is an utterly a-religious attitude, like that of the scientist with his eye stuck on his microscope."