Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don't use these modern cameras which break down all the time !

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.