Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is... all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dada hurts. Dada does not jest, for the reason that it was experienced by revolutionary men and not by philistines who demand that... art be a decoration for the mendacity of their own emotions.... I am firmly convinced that all art will become dadaistic in the course of time, because from Dada proceeds the perpetual urge for its renovation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away, ...and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian ...steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shi'ite fundamentalists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »