Marcel Duchamp Quotes

The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me.

Marcel Duchamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 28, 1887 - October 2, 1968

Topics

SuccessMeWaitYouTrueEverything

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

John Boehner

LifeResearchWayHumanOutEthical

I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The fact I love Frank is my grandfather's doing: he drummed it into me from a very early age that Frank Sinatra is God.

Matt Smith

LoveGodAgeMeSongDoing

The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

Jean Piaget

PracticeThoughtArgumentInvention

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.

St. Vincent

LoveCarRememberRoyalKidAlways

I work out at Runyon Canyon almost every morning.

Trevor Donovan

WorkMorningCanyonOutWork Out

If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I'd do it, but it really means very little to me. We're mavericks over here, what can we say?

Mike Davidson

MeSayOverLittleHereManhood

People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.

Judy Holliday

TimeDressPeopleMeLookClassy

I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.

Jon Krakauer

BestGolfGrowingTryDefendSee

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Jon Porter

LightManagementReviewControversy

'The Onion' is an amazing place to work because it's a bunch of really smart, collaborative writers who aren't afraid to try crazy things.

Jon Watts

WorkSmartAmazingCrazyPlaceTry

If you are ever on stage, and it feels as though the audience is not laughing at the right points or are not quite as engaged as you'd hope, you have to remember there is always somebody who might be falling in love with this world and having an epiphany. I was that person.

Chloe Pirrie

LoveHopeWorldRememberYouPerson

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

Ariel Winter

MotherBrotherMeSisterNameShe

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