Marcel Duchamp Quotes

The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it.

Marcel Duchamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CuriousMeMagicWayTryNever

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

InspirationalChangeDestinationWind

We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

Joe Lieberman

WomenBestMoneyMenStrongAmerica

All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.

Joe Bonamassa

CreativityGuitarTryingPlaySimply

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

John Boyega

CharacterGreatPeopleThinkPlay

It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.

Merle Haggard

LifeHomeTimeWifeMeThink

I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things.

John Singleton

HappyMeFocusedTrySameThings

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Sufjan Stevens

ReligionParentsBornKindIslam

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

Tom Hiddleston

HumilityKingsDramaHubrisHeroes

I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.

Jordi Molla

FearControlThinkActingKnowGet

I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do with age. There ain't nothing promised to you. Everybody's going to die.

Bobby Womack

AgePeopleThinkDieYouNothing

I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.

Ashleigh Murray

LovePrincessMoreDeedsAnything

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

Philippa Gregory

LoveTimeReadingThinkThinking

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