Dada hurts. Dada does not jest, for the reason that it was … - Richard Huelsenbeck

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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.

Richard Huelsenbeck

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Richard Huelsenbeck (23 April 1892 – 20 April 1974) was a German writer, poet, and psychoanalyst, and one of the leading Dada artists; he participated in Zürich in the 'Cabaret Voltaire'.

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Alternative Names: Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck

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