Marcel Duchamp Quotes

When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn't have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything.

Marcel Duchamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BicycleIntentionDownWheelSpecial

If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.

Jerry Saltz

ChangeGreatArtCultureGoNew

Even when we were under the Spanish flag, we had a movement that just wanted assimilation into Spain, a movement of autonomy - which has been the majority always - and a movement for separation. In that sense, Puerto Rico's political reality is very different from any place I know in the whole world.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

WorldRealityPoliticalPlaceKnow

You don't want to have a boring runway presentation, but you don't want to show stuff nobody is going to wear.

Michael Bastian

YouNobodyWantBoringPresentation

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.

Roger Moore

NeverVeniceBeen

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Michel Onfray

HopeJoyBabyPresentLoseEarth

I sure do enjoy my ice cream. And I consider a pint a good start.

Joshua Malina

WillRiskNeverAlwaysOpenThings

If you're stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don't be dumb. If you're going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home - which I did a lot of.

Jason Bateman

HomePeopleYouDrunkDumbBar

Batman is like the audience's eyes and ears in 'Justice League Dark.'

Jason O'Mara

EyesJusticeDarkAudienceEars

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

Jared Leto

MotherRespectSmartSheHerself

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

Jon Corzine

TaxesLineHoldIntentAbsolute

I got into this thing called the National Youth Theatre, and to me, that was all about the status quo. It seemed to me like 'Downton Abbey' - all the working-class and black people were playing servants, or the gravedigger in 'Hamlet,' and the boys from Eton and posh private schools got Hamlet, all the big roles.

DeObia Oparei

PeopleMeYouthTheatreBlackBig

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

Cheryl James

MeFeelingsEmotionsSuppressing

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