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Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands of years of struggle with the good sausage Python. The philosophers are of less use to Dada than an old toothbrush, and it leaves them on the scrap heap for the great leaders of the world.

— Jean Arp Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966)

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I like nature but not its substitutes. Naturalist art, illusionism, is a substitute for nature.

Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966)

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966)

We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. We want to produce as a plant produces a fruit and does not itself reproduce.

Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966)

The philosophers are of less use to Dada than an old toothbrush, and it leaves them on the scrap heap for the great leaders of the world.

Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966)

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

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