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Tristan Tzara

Datum narození: 16. duben 1896
Datum úmrtí: 25. prosinec 1963

Reklama

Tristan Tzara [Cara], vlastním jménem Samuel Rosenstock byl francouzský básník a dramatik rumunsko-židovského původu. Jedná se o jednoho ze zakladatelů dadaismu.

Citáty Tristan Tzara

„Nikdy se nespoléhej na plnění slibů daných jinými, ani od nich nečekej žádné projevy lásky. Vyhneš se tak většině citových zranění.“

— Tristan Tzara

O lásce

„Princip ´Miluj svého bližního´ je pokrytectví. ´Poznej sebe´ je utopie, ale přijatelnější, neboť obsahuje v sobě zlomyslnost.“

— Tristan Tzara

O milování, o lásce

Reklama

„Lidé jsou chudí, neboť jeden druhého okrádá.“

— Tristan Tzara

O lidech

„...je to stav mysli. . . . Dada není vůbec moderní. Je to v podstatě návrat k téměř buddhistickému náboženství lhostejnosti.“

— Tristan Tzara

O náboženství, o lhostejnosti

„Všichni lidé jsou vnímaví k humoru. Záleží jen na tom, včas si na něj vzpomenout. Bez humoru by život nebyl schůdný. Totéž bych řekl o poezii.“

— Tristan Tzara
1920

O lidech, o životě

„Láska je silná jako smrt. Obě mají společné to, že si je nemůžeme vyzkoušet. To je jejich vážnost i síla.“

— Tristan Tzara

O síle, o lásce, o smrti

„Je důležité, jak osud člověk přijme, než to, jaký ten osud vlastně je.“

— Tristan Tzara

O osudu

„You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.“

— Tristan Tzara

Reklama

„I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way."

- Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918“

— Tristan Tzara
Context: Dada; knowledge of all the means rejected up until now... Dada; abolition of logic, which is the dance of those impotent to create: Dada; of every social hierarchy and equation set up for the sake of values by our valets: Dada; every object, all objects, sentiments, obscurities, apparitions and the precise clash of parallel lines are weapons for the fight: Dada; abolition of memory: Dada; abolition of archaeology: Dada; abolition of prophets: Dada; abolition of the future: Dada; absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity:* Dada; elegant and unprejudiced leap from a harmony to the other sphere... Freedom: Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

„Always destroy what is in you.“

— Tristan Tzara, Oeuvres Completes

„Dada is not at all modern. It is more in the nature of a return to an almost Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada covers things with an artificial gentleness, a snow of butterflies released from the head of a prestidigitator. Dada is immobility and does not comprehend the passions.“

— Tristan Tzara

„There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators... Every page must explode, either by profound heavy seriousness, the whirlwind, poetic frenzy, the new, the eternal, the crushing joke, enthusiasm for principles, or by the way in which it is printed. On the one hand a tottering world in flight, betrothed to the glockenspiel of hell, on the other hand: new men. Rough, bouncing, riding on hiccups. Behind them a crippled world and literary quacks with a mania for improvement.“

— Tristan Tzara

Reklama

„Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting. Dada knows the correct measure that should be given to art: with subtle, perfidious methods, Dada introduces it into daily life. And vice versa. In art, Dada reduces everything to an initial simplicity, growing always more relative. It mingles its caprices with the chaotic wind of creation and the barbaric dances of savage tribes. It wants logic reduced to a personal minimum.“

— Tristan Tzara

„Experience is also a product of chance and individual faculties... I detest greasy objectivity, and harmony, the science that finds everything in order. Carry on, my children, humanity... Science says we are the servants of nature: everything is in order, make love and bash your brains in. Carry on, my children, humanity, kind bourgeois and journalist virgins... I am against systems, the most acceptable system is on principle to have none.“

— Tristan Tzara

„We Dadaists are often told that we are incoherent, but into this word people try to put an insult that it is rather hard for me to fathom. Everything is incoherent... There is no logic... The acts of life have no beginning and no end. Everything happens in a completely idiotic way. That is why everything is alike. Simplicity is called Dada. Any attempt to conciliate an inexplicable momentary state with logic strikes me as a boring kind of game... Like everything in life, Dada is useless... Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all of the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions.“

— Tristan Tzara

„To make a Dadaist Poem (1920)

Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
The poem will resemble you.
And there you are—an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.“

— Tristan Tzara
Quote of Tzara's poem from 1920; as cited in Cambridge Introduction to Modernism, ed. Pericles Lewis (Cambridge UP, 2007), p. 107 - online: [https://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/To_Make_a_Dadaist_Poem]