The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.

We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it buckled and was ruined... that is why we decided to tear prewrinkled paper, so that in the finished work of art imperfection would be an integral part, as if at birth death were built in.

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.