Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
“Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.” — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm,… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
