All critics should be assassinated.

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

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

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

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.

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.

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !