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Tristan Tzara

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Tristan Tzara, born on April 16, 1896, and died on December 25, 1963, was a prominent poet. He was one of the founders of the Dada movement, known for his unique poetic style and avant-garde artistic ideas that influenced later generations.

Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries

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“Take a newspaper. Take some scissors. Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make your poem. Cut out the article. Next carefully cut out each of the words that makes up this article and put them all in a bag. Shake gently. Next take out each cutting one after the other. Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag. The poem will resemble you. And there you are -- an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.”

Art Philosophy Poetry

Book:Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries

Source: Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries

“I'm cold, I'm afraid. I'm green I'm flower I'm gasometer I'm afraid.”

Book:The Gas Heart: The Dada Anti-Masterpiece of Drama

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“Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions.”

Art Avant Garde Dadaism

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“Try to be empty and fill your brain cells with a petty happiness. Always destroy what you have in you.”

Art Dada Dadaism

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“Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.”

Art Literature Politics Design Books Surrealism Linguistics Typography Manifesto Dada Dadism

Book:Manifesti del dadaismo

Source: Manifesti del dadaismo

“Dada n'a aucune prétention comme la vie devrait être. Peut-être me comprendrez-vous mieux quand je vous dirai que dada est un microbe vierge qui s'introduit avec l'insistance de l'air dans tous les espaces que la raison n'a pu combler de mots ou de conventions.”

Book:Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries

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“They kept catching colds with great regularity. For the regularity of his life a little death, too. Its name was continuity.”

Death Temporality Continuity Of Being

Book:The Gas Heart: The Dada Anti-Masterpiece of Drama

Source: The Gas Heart: The Dada Anti-Masterpiece of Drama

“We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.”

Made Mistake Written Made A Mistake

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“Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom.”

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“Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.”

Color Opposites Contradiction Tense Roaring Inconsistency

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“To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a bag. Shake gently, draw them out at random, and copy them conscientiously... DADA est mort. DADA est idiot. Vive DADA!”

Draws Newspapers Idiot Shakes Bags Pairs Copies Scissors

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“When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power is contained in his flame, and the sensitive paper absorbed by degrees the blackness cut out of some ordinary object. He had invented a fresh and tender flash of lightning.”

Wells Art Cutting Objects Degrees Paper Ordinary Photographer Flames Sensitive Candle Flash Lightning Lit Blackness

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“Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)”

Men Firsts Reason Water Ears Tragic Eggs Formulas Rays Arcs Minerals Spirals Gleam Revolver Turbines

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“But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.”

Knows Art Moments Speak Cameras Excellent Gentleman Portraits

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“Thought is made in the mouth.”

Thinking Made Mouths

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“Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.”

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“You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”

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“Art needs an operation”

Needs Art Operations

Book:Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries

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“The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.”

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“Always destroy what is in you.”

Author:Tristan Tzara

“I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918”

Way Art Speak Wish Practice Rivers Convince Drag Follow Me Manifestos

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“Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.”

Humans Art Literature Products Understood Journalism Guidance Works Of Art Professors Imbecility

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“Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.”

Doe Passion Modern Return Snow Buddhist Indifference Coming Out Stillness Artificial Butterfly Sweetness Skulls

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“Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.”

Art Products Understood Journalism Works Of Art

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“Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.”

People Art Life Is Values Interesting Art Is Universal Manifestation Attributes Celestial

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“I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.”

Want Writing Certain Principles Manifestos

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“In principle, I am against principles.”

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“Let us try for once not to be right.”

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About the Author

Born: April 16, 1896
Died: December 25, 1963
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 28

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