Dada is a state of mind.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word "like."

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

I am the soul in limbo.