What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.