"Picabia's clocks, stripped of their former importance, all crazily jangling
springs, are absurd but they are essentially real things. Dali's surrealist
time pieces are transformed by the artist's subconscious and infused with
magical new significance."
---Elmer Peterson, from Tristan Tzara: Dada and Surrational Theorist
(Rutgers University: New Brunswick, NJ, 1971), p. 56.