Marcel Duchamp Quotes

My Ready-Mades have nothing to do with the 'objet trouve' because the so-called 'found object' is completely directed by personal taste. Personal taste decides that this is a beautiful object and is unique.

Marcel Duchamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautifulUniqueNothingPersonal

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

Joe Wright

GoodArtActionPoliticalBadFilm

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

Jenna Jameson

CourageYouNeverDefineDefinition

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

John Lurie

MusicPeopleBelieveThinkTalking

The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.

Michael Chertoff

MoneyEnoughYouSaidNowWant

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

Steve Scalise

BibleConstitutionThinkImportant

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.

Tom Perrotta

LifeProgressSchoolMeHigh School

I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.

Ruth Pitter

I AmMeYouTellInterestedMuch

Losing is not in my vocabulary.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

LosingVocabulary

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

Molly Ivins

WomenTimeAngryBlackLateRiots

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

Jay Inslee

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For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their masculinity has been called into question, whether through victimisation or a failure to achieve the status that they feel they are entitled to.

Deeyah Khan

FailureMenFeelPowerfulAchieve

I am so thrilled to carve out a few minutes to write that I grab it whenever I can.

Deborah Harkness

I AmI CanWriteOutMinutesGrab

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