- Tristan Tzara: I'm against action, for continuous contradiction; for affirmation too - I'm neither for not against. And I do not explain because I hate common sense. Some people think they can explain rationally, by thought, what they think. But that is extremely relative. Psychoanalysis is a dangerous disease. It puts to sleep the anti-objective impulses of man, and systematizes the bourgoise. The dialectic is an amusing mechanism, which guides us in a banal kind of way to... the opinions we had in the first place.
- Max Ernst: Dada was a bomb. We, the Dadaist exploded this bomb. The fragments have scattered across the world. What are the museums doing? They are trying to reassemble those fragments to exhibit to the public as relics.
- Poetry Reciter: [as Jean Arp] DADA wanted to replace the logical nonsense of man with the illogically senseless.
- Poetry Reciter: [as Jean Arp] Some old friends of mine from the days of Dada, who always fought for dreams and freedom, are now disgustingly preoccupied with class aims and are busy turning the Hegelian dialectic into a hurdy-gurdy tune. Conscientiously they mix poetry and the Five Year Plan in one pot; but man will not allow himself to be transformed into scrubbed, hygienic numeral. It is hard to imagine how the greatest individualists can come out from a termite state.
- Poetry Reciter: [as Rene Magritte] I do not believe that man decides anything. Neither the future nor present of humanity. A universe of chance? I don't know. Unknown forces? I hate talking about that, because it doesn't mean anything; like talking about symbols. I think we are responsible for the universe, but this does not mean that we decide anything. Cause and effect? That's determinism, and there again; one would have to believe in it. If one is a Determinist, one must always believe that there is a cause which produces the same effect. I am not a Determinist, but I don't believe in chance either. It serves as still another explanation of the world. The problem lies precisely in not accepting any explanation of the world; either through chance or Determinism. I am not responsible for my belief, it is not even I who decides that I am not responsible; and so on, to infinity. I am obliged not to believe. There is no point of departure.