If it were married to logic, art would be living in incest, engulfing, swallowing its own tail.…

—Tristan Tzara, Manifeste Dada 1918

The only word that is not ephemeral is the word death…. To death, to death, to death. The only thing that doesn't die is money, it just leaves on trips.

—Francis Picabia, Manifeste Cannibale Dada, 1920

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