Dada's propaganda for a total repudiation of art was in itself a factor in the advance of art. Our feeling of freedom from rules, precepts, money and critical praise, a freedom for which we paid the price of an excessive distaste and contempt for the public, was a major stimulus. The freedom not to care a damn about anything, the absence of any kind of opportunism, which in any case could have served no purpose, brought us all closer to the source of all art, the voice within ourselves. The absence of any ulterior motive enabled us to listen to the voice of the 'Unknown' - and to draw knowledge from the realm of the Unknown. Thus we arrived at the central experience of dada. - Hans Richter (1888-1976)
Surrealism and the Occult: Shamanism, Magic, Alchemy, and the Birth of an Artistic Movement by Nadia Choucha
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