Marcel Duchamp Quotes

The basis for my own work during the years just before coming to America in 1915 was a desire to break up forms - to 'decompose' them much along the lines the cubists had done. But I wanted to go further - much further - in fact, in quite another direction altogether.

Marcel Duchamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkDirectionAmericaDesireDone

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

Ann Voskamp

DayChristmasWearyKidsArrive

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

SegregationBoundariesDaysGone

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

Marvin Harris

LightPeopleProblemsFeelQuestions

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Livy

FreedomKingOldOverSweetnessHad

London has such an unbelievable respect for theater, where L.A. does not. You go to a play here, and the dude next to you is sleeping. In London, if you're not in your seat when it starts, they lock the door. In Los Angeles, you can stroll into school late with a cup of coffee. In London, you get your butt to class on time.

Devin Kelley

RespectTimeCoffeeSchoolDoorYou

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

Cheech Marin

DaySchoolOne DayKidGoingPriest

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anthony Anderson

FamilyFunnyHouseNobodyLeaveOur

A wedding, people decide to get married, it comes out of such love for one another and then women can turn into these other people. They're planning something that's the biggest event they'll ever plan in their lives and it turns them into this other person, so it's not totally the guy's fault that he's feeling disconnected from this person.

Alison Brie

LoveWomenPeoplePlanningPlan

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

William Osler

AloneStruggleEffortWorthTrue

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Marilyn Monroe

HappyBe HappyGayI CanKnowNever

I've never read an ebook. Print every time.

Mark Billingham

TimeNeverReadPrintEvery

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

Kerry Washington

LoveLiveHistoryGreatWordsVoice

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Marcel Duchamp