Hugo Ball > Quotes

“Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.”
― Hugo Ball

“Punctuality can go to the devil.”
― Hugo Ball, Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor

“Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?”
― Hugo Ball

“And if you acknowledged cleanliness,oder, and the law, you also had to acknowledge the police.”
― Hugo Ball, Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor

“It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.”
― Hugo Ball, Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor

“I bear the signature of my homeland, and I feel surrounded by it everywhere I go.”
― Hugo Ball, Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary

“Oh, this century of glowing light and barbed wire, primordial strength and abyss!”
― Hugo Ball, Ball and Hammer: Hugo Ball's Tenderenda the Fantast

“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.”
― Hugo Ball, Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary

“Everything is functioning; only man himself is not any longer.”
― Hugo Ball, Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary

“No such thing as humanity without flaws.”
― Hugo Ball, Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor

“The dadaist puts more trust in the honesty of events than in the wit of people. He can get people cheaply, himself included. He no longer believes in the comprehension of things from one point of view, and yet he is still so convinced of the unity of all beings, of the totality of all things, that he suffers from the dissonances to the point of self-disintegration.”
― Hugo Ball, Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary

“Da li bi čovjek trebao tetovirati srce na čelo? Tada bi cijeli svijet vidio: srce mu je udarilo u glavu. A budući da bi to bilo srce boje tinte, modro poput umiranja, agonijsko, moglo bi se reći i: smrt mu je udarila u glavu. Mi samo trebamo zapisati koliko duboko nas je pogodio užas.”
― Hugo Ball, Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary