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

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

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

I paint when I cannot photograph.