Tristan Tzara famous quotes

03-25-2025

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.
-- Tristan Tzara
The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.
-- Tristan Tzara

#Depth #Summit
Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE
-- Tristan Tzara

#Color #Opposites #Roaring
Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom.
-- Tristan Tzara
We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.
-- Tristan Tzara

#Mistake #Made #Made A Mistake
Let us try for once not to be right.
-- Tristan Tzara

#Trying
In principle, I am against principles.
-- Tristan Tzara

#Principles
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.
-- Tristan Tzara

#Writing #Want #Principles
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.
-- Tristan Tzara

#Art #Interesting #People
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.
-- Tristan Tzara

#Art #Journalism #Works Of Art
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.
-- Tristan Tzara

#Buddhist #Butterfly #Passion
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.
-- Tristan Tzara

#Art #Literature #Journalism
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
-- Tristan Tzara

#Art #Practice #Rivers
Always destroy what is in you.
-- Tristan Tzara
Art needs an operation
-- Tristan Tzara

#Art #Needs #Operations
Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.
-- Tristan Tzara
Thought is made in the mouth.
-- Tristan Tzara

#Thinking #Mouths #Made

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