Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Tristan Tzara

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement. Under the influence of Adrian Maniu, the adolescent Tzara became interested in Symbolism and co-founded the magazine Simbolul with Ion Vinea and painter Marcel Janco.

French - Artist | April 16, 1896 - December 25, 1963

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

Tristan Tzara

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tristan Tzara

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Tristan Tzara

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.

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

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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.)

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Let us try for once not to be right.

Tristan Tzara

In principle, I am against principles.

Tristan Tzara

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

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

Tristan Tzara

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

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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.

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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.

Tristan Tzara

The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.

Tristan Tzara

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

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!

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

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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.

Tristan Tzara

Art needs an operation

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Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom.

Tristan Tzara

Always destroy what is in you.

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

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Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Tristan Tzara

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