Wednesday 20 May 2009

If anything can be art, then nothing is.

something or nothing......
Picasso once said, "Art is lies that tell the truth." Art requires the suspension of reality or rather the ability to transcend the expected.
more access to nothing
Tristan Tzara. One of the original Zurich Dadaists who helped establish the famed Cabaret Voltaire, Tzara is a father of the movement. He taught his children how
“To make a dadaist poem:”
Take a newspaper.
Take a pair of scissors.
Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.
Shake it gently.
Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.
Copy conscientiously.
The poem will be like you.
And here you a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is/
[C]harming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.
Maybe this is the answer?

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