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Marcel Duchamp Quotes

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Intelligence Poetry Painting Doing

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

Vote Decide Scared Got Whom Once

When I was younger, everyone thought I was Courteney Cox.

Thought Everyone Younger Cox

Religious extremism. We hear about it all the time. We see it all the time. Heck, most of us are just sick of talking about it all the time.

Time Sick Talking See Us Just

'Waiting for Godot,' when it first came out in 1950, was a very different sort of play to the plays that were in the West End at that time in London, because most of those plays were what we call drawing-room comedies.

Time Waiting End Play London First

Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Women Struggle Men Think Self Shame

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

Chris Van Allsburg

Personality Way Try Same Mundane

I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.

Professional Give Pro

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

Love Fear Lose Horror Anticipation

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Me Wind Career Nobody Manager Meet

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

Doing Hands Look Know Well Would

If you don't take a risk, you will not be satisfied and happy. I think one must look at creating history.

History Happy Think You Look Will

In many cases, companies use the crisis moments to pivot to do better. We like to be part of that.

Richard Edelman

Better Moments Crisis Like Use Many

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