Hugo Ball

“A line is a crack. It breaks the surface.”

“For us, art is not an end in itself... but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in.”

“I have invented a new genre of poems, sound poems... poems without words.”

“The word and the image are one.”

“What we are celebrating is both buffoonery and a requiem mass.”

“The Dadaist fights against the agony and the death throes of this age.”

“We must return to the innermost alchemy of the word.”

“The war is based on a blatant error, that men can be ruled by guns.”

“We were all there. The death of the times was our business. It is a secret law of nature that the soul cries out in the last agony of a dying age.”

“Every word that is spoken and sung here says at least one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.”

“The new artist has been forged by the ugliness of the times.”

“Dada was an explosion of disgust.”

“The logical is only one of the possibilities of the human mind.”

“The world has become a slaughterhouse.”

“God is a cry in the street.”

“The past is a phantom, a dream, a fiction.”

“In an age like ours, when people are assaulted daily by the most monstrous things, a painter of this kind has to be a scourge.”

“Theater is the active reflection of the transformation of a human being.”