Marcel Duchamp Quotes

Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral... our whole century is completely retinal, except for the Surrealists, who tried to go outside it somewhat.

Marcel Duchamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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PaintingGoMoralOutsideEveryone

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.

John Lurie

LiveHeartMeWritingSickWeird

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

Jeffrey Jones

MomentWalkPeopleTheatreWorld

The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.

Stephen Graham Jones

ChangeEndingStartingIndustryToo

I'm big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger - they're all on my iPod.

Trombone Shorty

KingMusiciansFansBigThoseiPod

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

Tom Tancredo

LawImmigrationPolicyRefugeeOnly

New technologies, innovative management, higher productivity, displacements in the labour market, increased migration - these are all provoking major economic, social, and political shifts. These shifts need to be better understood if we are to address them in a positive and effective manner.

Roberto Azevedo

PositiveManagementBetterPolitical

A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

Moby

MusicGreatSongThinkViewWill

YouTube was always a secret space for me. I'd randomly post videos of me singing with guitar, or sometimes I'd post some half-finished film projects I'd made.

Clairo

SpaceMeSingingGuitarSometimes

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Anne Sullivan

EffortPeopleThinkTrainYoung

Corporations must pay tax.

Gore Vidal

TaxPayMustCorporations

When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.

Erwin McManus

HeartDownSkinTrySeeBreak

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

TodayCommunismSurviveThinkParty

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