The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

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

An original is a creation motivated by desire.