“I have two principle aims, two life works. The second is my sonata [Schwitters' 'UrSonata' - a long sound poem of 35 minutes]”

—  Kurt Schwitters

Source: 1940s, I is Style (2000), p. 48 : quoted by Margareth Miller to Oliver Kaufmann [the first principle aim is his Merzbau]

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