Marcel Duchamp Quotes

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?

Marcel Duchamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthGreatArtPeopleSpeakWhy

Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds. Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.

John Breaux

StruggleResearchPlanningHelpUs

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

Joey Lauren Adams

DayWake UpYouWantIntimacyUp

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

John Berger

DogDreamsGreatImaginationLiving

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

John Morley

LawProcessEvolutionForceCause

If I ever had twins, I'd use one for parts.

Steven Wright

TwinsUsePartsEverHad

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

Sinead O'Connor

PeopleMeBetterFeelBeingWeight

I didn't know how to dance, so I just jumped up and down and bashed people. Then everybody else started doin' it, but they didn't get it right, so I quit.

Sid Vicious

DancePeopleDownKnowQuitRight

As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.

Jason Isbell

WorkThinkYouDoneNeverAnything

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Jorge Luis Borges

UncertaintyUnknownGreeksState

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

Dick Cheney

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It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

Derek Jacobi

NightHorseYouLateDangerousOff

The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.

Dorothea Dix

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