Marcel Duchamp Quotes

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.

Marcel Duchamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeArtMeNowMilitaryCanvas

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

Joel Salatin

TodayMyselfCultureVoiceThinking

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.

Stanley Hauerwas

MistakeDeepThinkSomeoneYouHere

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

Tony Blair

LeaderJourneyTimeResponsibility

I have kind of a weird technique with zucchini. I cut it into small cubes; sweat it in olive oil, adding just a little oil at time so it crisps. Then I cover it with boiling water, not stock, which really brings out the flavor of the zucchini, add lemon, thyme, and serve it with burrata and a fried zucchini flower.

Tom Colicchio

FlowerTimeWaterSmallWeirdKind

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Mike Nichols

ChanceTake A ChanceSafeTakeOnly

I know how to sell books.

Mike Cernovich

KnowSellBooksHow

Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.

Mitski

WorldDirtyKindMessyEverything

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

Louis A. Johnson

ResponsibilityProblemsAuthority

In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.

Deborah Tannen

TodayGreatPastEnlightenmentNow

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Colin Powell

PowerPeaceActionLoseSecurity

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Anne Lamott

FearHateDayPeaceWake UpFeeling

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

LaughterMannersFollyLoudIll

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