The mama of dada.

-Fadiman, Clifton
  Of Gertrude Stein. Party of One.

Dada ne signifie rien. Dada means nothing.

-Tzara,Tristan pseudonym of Samy Rosenstock
  Sept manifestes Dada,'Manifeste Dada1918'.

Liberte¤  :, hurlement de couleurs crispe¤  es, entrelacements des contraires et de toutes les contradictions, des grotesques, des inconse¤  quences:. Freedom:, a howl of unnerving colours, intertwinings of contrarities and contradictions, of the grotesque, of inconsistencies:.

-Tzara,Tristan pseudonym of Samy Rosenstock
DADA DADA DADA LA VIE DADA DADA DADA LIFE1924  Sept manifestes Dada,'Manifeste Dada1918'.

Dada began not as an art form but as a disgust.

-Tzara,Tristan pseudonym of Samy Rosenstock
Quoted in SaranneAlexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).