My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club.

Introducing himself to the Dadaist Hans Richter in Zurich, c. 1916. Schwitters is quoted in 'Hannover-Dada', Hans Richter; as quoted in I is Style, ed. Siegfried Gohr & Gunda Luyken, commissioned by Rudi Fuchs, director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam 2000, p. 151.