We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.
Hugo BallEach thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance.
Hugo BallThe symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
Hugo Ball