Hans Richter: Dada: Art and Anti-Art

Where and how Dada began is almost as difficult to determine as Homer’s birthplace.

Dada marches on, destroying more and more, not in extension but in itself.

Dada applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing; it is the point at which Yes and No, and all opposites, meet; not solemnly, in the palaces of human philosophy, but quite simply, at streetcorners, like dogs and grasshoppers.

Dada is useless, like everything else in life.